Shifting gears

Punch the clutch to change gear, but raise it gently to find the biting point. EO-derived analytics are still finding the bite.

I was lucky enough to learn to drive in the UK, so I learned to drive with a manual gear-box. On a stick-shift, for those in North America. Now, living in Canada for almost two decades, those clutching skills atrophied until last year when I rented a vehicle for a family holiday in Greece. I rapidly recalled my hill starts in a sweaty moment on a steep …