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Originally Posted by Atticus808
i thought the car holds the rpms, and won't upshift or downshift unless you press the paddles?
also, this problem would be solved if they didnt attach the paddles to the steering wheel
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In full manual mode it pretty much does. It will downshift itself when RPMs are ridiculously low and won't allow downshifts if vehicle speed would result in exceeding redline. It also won't allow upshifts if the resulting RPM would be ridiculously low. However, I understand it will not upshift by itself and you just bounce off the upper rev limiter. I'll just have to wait to do that by mistake to find out for myself.
What the poster is referring to is the ability to use paddles to upshift or downshift even while staying in auto shift mode. It temporarily overrides and will hold the selected gear for a short time before lapsing back to auto shift mode. Great for downshifts in anticipation of passing or when hard braking before a turn. Those things an automatic transmission doesn't know you are about to do and where the shift just can't wait.