I <3 the paddles in my M3!
They are for people who want to drive a manual but can’t drive a manual.
Otherwise they can simply make the whole transmission auto only and literally take the human out of the equation. Even in manual mode, you simply can’t make a mistake as a driver, as the driver is protected by the computer to think what is best for them.
You guys remember the movie I, Robot?
“The only way to protect the human from themselves is to control them.” - V.I.K.I :rofl
LMAO, i hope my car doesn’t decide to kill me, but I see what the hig end market is about. I think that the computer is much more capable of making a perfect shift 100 percent of the time than a human. That’s not to say that people shouldn’t be able to drive their own cars via a manual transmission, but in the high end marketplace perfection is worth $$. Whoever has the fastest, strongest, most powerful whatever lol.
Other than that, no reason to have an auto unless you really really want it/need it. Seems as though the average american driver can’t figure out a manual transmission, and this will help perpetuate that for sure!