Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?

[possibletarian]

So they do have a stick getting in the way?

Not at all. There's a difference between having one stick to either drive or reverse, and then having an extra stick just to shift gears of speed while driving.

Stick shifts don't have an extra stick, it's the same one.
I remember driving an automatic and becoming frustrated at its slowness to change gear up a notch, that and it can't anticipate conditions like traffic lights, bends, or hills, which with a stick shift you can gear down for in anticipation.