Is a stick shift better than an automatic? No. Is an automatic better than a stick? No. This misses the point. A better question: Is a road full of drivers not distracted by the arcane inner workings of their vehicle safer? It’s likely.
I may stand alone on this issue, but I see this the exact opposite. In an automatic, being able to drive along with just a foot on the gas and hand on the wheel, I find that I actually pay less attention to driving and more attention to everything else: other cars, the radio, my passengers talking, billboards, buildings, etc. In a manual, I'm infinitely more aware of what my car is doing and what I'm doing to mesh that hunk of metal and plastic with the rest of traffic, and far less focused on all of life's distractions.
That actually makes for a better point then: not being 'infinitely aware' of what the machine is doing allows you to pay more attention to everything else. In the case of the iPad that means you're free to focus jus on the web, movie, game, app, music, etc. That's a good thing. That's the point.
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Is a stick shift better than an automatic? No. Is an automatic better than a stick? No. This misses the point. A better question: Is a road full of drivers not distracted by the arcane inner workings of their vehicle safer? It’s likely.
I may stand alone on this issue, but I see this the exact opposite. In an automatic, being able to drive along with just a foot on the gas and hand on the wheel, I find that I actually pay less attention to driving and more attention to everything else: other cars, the radio, my passengers talking, billboards, buildings, etc. In a manual, I'm infinitely more aware of what my car is doing and what I'm doing to mesh that hunk of metal and plastic with the rest of traffic, and far less focused on all of life's distractions.
That actually makes for a better point then: not being 'infinitely aware' of what the machine is doing allows you to pay more attention to everything else. In the case of the iPad that means you're free to focus jus on the web, movie, game, app, music, etc. That's a good thing. That's the point.