Gufran, The kind of transmission depends on the driver. Your wife will have to learn manual gear shifting before transitioning to automatic transmission. Keep your first car with a manual gearshift. Ideally, your wife can best answer this question once she learns driving.
The thing with automatic gears is that you still need to understand the performance of the car at different speeds. These cars also consume more fuel because the engine is permanently accelerated. I own a car with automatic transmission. I always check with any new driver if he has ever handled such a vehicle. Other list members have covered the rest of your queries. I would add my vote for teaching your wife driving. As for literacy, that can be taught and is like any other skill. I have also considered electric vehicles. How many kilometers do you cover in a week? Most vehicles have a range of 250 kilometers before they need to be charged. You do get chargers that plugin into a regular 15 ampere wall outlet as far as I know but they are comparatively slow. Pranav -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/008101da3d73%24403fd730%24c0bf8590%24%40gmail.com.
