Auto Transmission
When shopping for a car one of the many important decisions to be made is whether to choose a standard or automatic transmission. While some, including the vast majority of Europeans, wouldn’t consider anything other than the involvement of the manual shifting transmission , for most Americans an automatic transmission is the preferred … Keep Reading → choice. With an automatic transmission the gear shifts are done by a computer that is able to sense when the speed and driving conditions warrant shifting gears. There is no need to shift gears yourself. As you are not shifting gears yourself there is no clutch on vehicles with automatic transmission. There is a hybrid option which offers the convenience of an automatic transmission but enables the driver to manually shift when they want. An example of this is the Tiptronic system employed by Volkswagen and Audi.
