Suddenly environment conscious Indian motorists appear to be facing leg aches, hand aches, head aches, heavy traffic, etc while out on the roads driving their car. All these to justify buying automatic cars.
The automatic cars being sold in India returns a fuel economy of 2 - 3 kmpl LESS and most of the buyers with aching bodies are the ones who also keep talking the most about the ill-effects of climate change. People like me drive dinosaurs which are 10 - 15+ year old cars that gives a better FE than the latest tech cars.
Many drivers today don't trust their own skills, but are willing to pledge their lives to some black box technologies, viz. the software packed ECM/ ECU and innumerable sensors. In doing so they are progressively losing out on whatever human skills and capabilities they have. When I sit in an automatic car, I am shit scared that if the brakes fail, the driver doesn't have the means to down shift gears and reduce speeds or stop like one would do in a geared car.
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* Automatic Cars
* Indian Roadie Knowledge Hub - Automatic Cars
* Indian Roadie Knowledge Hub
* Fine Driving Gyanology
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