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Originally Posted by Jordanwolf

Oh god. Let's not ever think you could call a car semi-auto, at least not right now.

This is implying the car can never drive like a true auto, like a gun, a semi-auto gun when the trigger is held, no longer launches bullets beyond the single bullet from that trigger pull. Much like a trigger, the throttle when depressed and when the engine reaches the top of the RPM band will not shift. You could only ever call it semi-auto if the car would never let you drive as auto, but that's not a thing as far as I know, correct me if I am wrong.

Semi auto isn't that far off a term. Many weapons ( they are not "guns") include settings for automatic or semi. When set to auto they are auto when set to semi they are semi.