I don't believe that you really can drive, unless you can drive a manual - otherwise - in my daughter's words 'you have it easy, you are only steering and braking.'

I drove a manual car for nearly 20 years, and while they are much more fun to drive than an automatic, it is so much easier to get into strife in a manual (as demonstrated with my hill start - but I still did it).

Since this episode, her dad has taken her out driving and made her do at least a dozen successful hill starts - not at quite the extreme gradient that I had to do, but working towards.

It's all about her learning, and me rediscovering skills and confidence I guess.