I drove an automatic for the first time yesterday. Tryna put my foot down to merge but the car had other ideas and changed gears. Granted, it changed down to give me more power, but I’ll decide when I want to change gears thank you very much.
Yeah 100%, I’ve been driving around a bit more today and I’m starting to get the gist of it, it just threw me off the first time it happened cuz it happened while tryna merge lol. I’m used to using my hands for the throttle as I got my bike license first, its not a 1:1 transfer aha
Edit: I should add that I’m in the UK and I’m learning, I’ve done alot of lessons and my instructor says I’m test ready. I’ll be doing it in a manual but I wanted some experience on the road without the pressure of an instructor before my test in a couple of months so I’m driving a family members car. It’s much more powerful than my instructors car so the finesse is really important and I’m not used to it
Older autos that just use a kick down throttle cable are okay because you learn where in the throttle travel it will shift, and it wont change. but modern cars are awful for it, the damn computer always seems to have a different shift point for “economy”.
I drove an automatic for the first time yesterday. Tryna put my foot down to merge but the car had other ideas and changed gears. Granted, it changed down to give me more power, but I’ll decide when I want to change gears thank you very much.
You need to learn to have a little more finesse with your right foot.
Yeah 100%, I’ve been driving around a bit more today and I’m starting to get the gist of it, it just threw me off the first time it happened cuz it happened while tryna merge lol. I’m used to using my hands for the throttle as I got my bike license first, its not a 1:1 transfer aha
Edit: I should add that I’m in the UK and I’m learning, I’ve done alot of lessons and my instructor says I’m test ready. I’ll be doing it in a manual but I wanted some experience on the road without the pressure of an instructor before my test in a couple of months so I’m driving a family members car. It’s much more powerful than my instructors car so the finesse is really important and I’m not used to it
Older autos that just use a kick down throttle cable are okay because you learn where in the throttle travel it will shift, and it wont change. but modern cars are awful for it, the damn computer always seems to have a different shift point for “economy”.