(September 28, 2018 at 9:41 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(September 28, 2018 at 8:48 am)Mathilda Wrote: Wait, I was asking how you can drop to a lower gear when wanting to accelerate faster. A gas pedal won't do that. It will put you into a higher gear when you go faster.
If I'm not mistaken, flooring it actually puts you into a lower gear. But I'm open to evidence either way.
Was just googling this myself. It's called kick down apparently. Still doesn't help with snow and long slopes downwards though, although admittedly those are rare situations depending on where you live.
And I think this is what it comes down to. If you have large open roads and a very low speed limit I can imagine that an automatic makes things easier. Driving around the windy roads of the highlands of Scotland though is a different matter. It can be a lot of fun until you get stuck behind a slow tourist in an automatic cruising along at 40-50mph. And there is absolutely no way to overtake them either.
