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Esoteric? I've only encountered a handful of automatic cars in my life here in the UK. Having a licence that only covers automatic has historically been rather limiting here. The only person I know that has that has dyspraxia.

For me the appeal of a manual transmission is in engine braking. When driving an ICE car I barely need the brakes because the majority of my speed management is through engine braking. Fortunately my electric car has the option for pseudo engine braking - and it charges the battery too!

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RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Automatic cars also have engine braking.

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- Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  When I've driven an automatic I could only manually set the gears for first and second. I'm sure that's not universal as nothing is, but I can only speak to my own experience.
  
  I would usually use fourth when decelerating up to a junction and then switch directly to second as I get close, as an example.
  
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- 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah but it’s not really feasible to use it at every corner and stop like you can a manual car. Engine braking in an auto is mostly just for doing long descents without riding the brakes too much
  
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  - FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Some cars have ‘hard’ regenerative braking but yea, it’s rare
    
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    0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Regen is just an electric car thing though, no? And EVs (with very few exceptions) don’t have a transmission at all?
    
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