Humvees are still automatic to my knowledge. Good Grief, please don’t suggest the conversion to stick shift would be a savings argument for the Taiwan taxpayer!! I don’t want to think of any Freudian slips for the clutch. And you really don’t want any of my methods of reverse psychology for the stick! (And if you really do, remember the don’t tell policy)
[quote]Cross-culture communication teaches that your cultural studies of the road and how the culture reacts is a good method of assessment for the broader society.
~ Jedi quote from Master Yoda on the film set just before he took his walking stick to beat R2-D2 in the next scene.[/quote]
My first gig in Taiwan was at a computer company. It was the traditional mom and pop (laoban/laoban-niang) joint. They needed to buy a truck for moving inventory. The wife of the boss was so short-sighted and stingy that she bought a stick-shift truck, knowing full well that no one in the company had a licence for a stick-shift vehicle, and no one knew how to drive it anyway. So … it sat there and collected bird terd. In the end they spent extra money to rent another automatic truck for their needs. In the end, more money spent and less flexibility.
Goes back to that lazy issue and money to burn. Get out and learn how-to drive a stick!! Nah, easier to buy a new toy. There is a three generational cycle of poor to rich to bust again. I forget the western scholar who developed it, but it has impending veracity for the Asian economies. It might even describe the “Boom Busters” of the US stock market. Their Depression era parents gave them everything, and then they busted the American digital economy at the apex of their economic productivity. Ok, maybe not but we’ll see in 15 years.