When hunting for a vehicle, you are likely to find many new and used automatic cars for sale in your area. You may even notice that there are more used automatic cars available than standard cars. That's because cars with automatic transmissions are more popular and more common than cars with manual transmissions. As people spend more time in their cars (and more time stuck in traffic), carmakers have optimized the comfort of driving through innovations, like the easy-to-operate automatic transmission. With no gears to shift or clutch pedal to balance, automatic cars take some of the stress out of driving.
What is an automatic car?
An automatic car is a car with an automatic transmission. This means that the car automatically senses when to change gears to match the speed of the car and grade of the road. With an automatic vehicle, there are sensors built into the transmission that tells it when to switch to a higher or lower gear. As a driver, this means you can simply put the gear shift to "Drive" and go. An easy way to tell if a car is automatic or manual is to check how many pedals it has. An automatic vehicle is equipped with two—the gas and the brake—while a manual vehicle has a third pedal, the clutch.
Why choose an automatic transmission?
Quite simply, an automatic car is easier to drive. Driving a car with manual transmission is a skill you need to learn and practice to make your drives smooth. It can also be a lot of hard work shifting gears and balancing pedals in a standard car, especially in stop-and-go traffic or on hills. Cars with automatic transmissions, on the other hand, are much simpler to operate. If you don't want to deal with the stress of stalling your car in the middle of an intersection or rolling backwards down a hill, then the ease of automatic is probably a better choice for you.
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