Does anyone own "The Moral Landscape"?

[John V]

You have the gas pedal, faster, and the break pedal, slower, on the floor by your feet.  Dur.

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.

No, it automatically puts you in a lower gear if that's warranted. Hence the term automatic.