[Fat Charlie]

What most people call efficiency is actually applied laziness. Shifting your own gears may look like more work but it's actually the easiest way to get the car to do what you want it to do when you tell it to do it. Being helpless in a car while the TCM figures out what you want and then waiting for the hydraulics to catch up once they finally get told what to do is no fun, and trying to game that system by hitting the gas way before you want to actually move is nerve wracking.

Just let me pick what gear the car's in. It's a lot easier that way.