A significant marker of a generational shift in behaviour and an irreversible move to EV, is the number of people taking their driving test in an automatic (meaning they aren’t qualified to drive a manual) The
@BBCNews reports, the number of driving tests taken in automatics was 87,844 in 2012/13, or 6.12% of all tests, according to the Govt figures. That figure jumped to 479,556 in 2024/25, the last period with complete data, or 26%. The AA is predicting that 29% of all tests will be taken in automatics in 2025/26.