Nah, I've seen a manual-tranny car operated before. To me, that's like driving while talking on a cell phone. You have to distract yourself for like 3 seconds to remember when you're supposed to shift up/down, remember what combination of switching to use, and actually do it (now, was that "right, back, back to the left, forward, right, under, over" or "left, forward, pivot, U-turn, inverse Z, bash the damn gear shift for being so damn confusing?")