Clutching for Happiness

“In the future, your car will drive itself. In fact, you won’t even need to go along.”

I learned to drive on my father’s 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline Aerosedan. It was bewildering at first trying to give the engine enough gas while simultaneously feathering the clutch in order to get going, and then having to do it again to shift into second, and then again to get into high gear. I was nervous about the whole process at first, but it could have been a lot