[svandamme]

no , i disagree.

you get on the boat
they tell you to put it in park
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Even if you forget that crucial bit.
Even if they forgot to tell you

If you can't tell the difference between that big old brake pedal and the gas pedal in an automatic.
It's probably better you drive off a boat
then plow into a gas station as so often happens with old people who can't drive well no more.

You don't see those kind of accidents with Manuals.. It's really a unique problem with automatics,
because it allows people to drive who other wise wouldn't ave been able to.

If you are to stupid to realize that you have reaction time of a boiled carrot, and cannot respond to a VERY simple problem in a car, that requires you to do a VERY simple action.
then that's a problem for everybody

And distracted, well i'm sure there are plenty of dead pedestrians cyclists and innocent people dead because of distracted drivers, it's no different from a bad DIY.
if you get in a car, pay attention to what you are doing.