Cars - Do you drive a manual or automatic?

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Automatics are getting much smarter now, and you can also get hybrids that you can swap into manual whenever you want, or else cap the gears to help you with hills. I find them relaxing to drive as you just have to do less! Pulling away is much faster, because you're not screwing around with the clutch and gears. You just press the accelerator and off you go. It feels like magic! There is only the gas and the brake pedal.

In the ones I drove, you hold down the break as a sort of clutch to move the car from park (neutral) to drive (going forward) or reverse. You then just hit the gas and you're off. And if you put it in reverse by mistake, you're off very fast in the wrong direction