• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Completely and wholly agree. I fucking hate driving automatics with transmissions that don’t shift like I do. Especially ones that let the engine rev way up before shifting even when not really accelerating fast. Such a waste of gas.

    Don’t get me started on those fucking temperature settings… If it’s 100+F, I don’t want fucking 75 degree air coming at me at any point in time. I want ice cubes. I also enjoy not accidentally cracking my windshield with heat stress in the winter when the half-defrost setting randomly turns to high heat.

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      1 year ago

      Current ATs shift way better than most people would manually. Setting your AC to 75 doesnt mean the air coming out of the vent is 75°. People on here complaining about AT and aircons while apparently never having used them.

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        1 year ago

        Not everyone is driving a new car. There are older automatics, even ones after 2000, that behave as I described.

        I didn’t say it was all automatics. I said I especially hate ones like those.

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        1 year ago

        Big “Meh” on that statement. I drive a manual, and for a vacation, drove an Toyota Camry automatic. It had like 10 gears, and would take a while to search for the gear you wanted, and by the time it found it, it would need to be in a different powerband, so it would immediately pop out, search again…Rinse and repeat. On the flip side, my partner has a Honda with a CVT, and it is a much better automatic in my opinion. Easy power transition, no jerks, always at the right ratio, it really is fantastic. You might get a little hesitation if you absolutely slam the accelerator to the floor, but it is otherwise fairly responsive.

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          1 year ago

          Youre right, ‘current ATs’ is too general. What I meant was it is not like the technology itself is lacking. There are fantastic ATs by now, but old and cheap cars probably still have problems.