>>19813683>way more efficientexcept that is gaslighting by car companies optimizing for the test cycle
the start/stop system too, that improves on the testing cycle, but the actual IRL cars on real roads suck, they get bad mileage and the 8-9 speed automatics drive like ass.
Dunno if you browse websites like thay, but every european nation has a "truther"/"enthusiast" type website where people post their IRL fuel burns and compare it to manufacturer numbers, but even that isn't close enough to what you can achieve at the extreme ends.
I'm a hypermiler fag and a wear goblin who HATES touching the brakes unless absolutely forced to, and I drive a car with a posted 30MPG at a cross-verified-between-the-computer-readout-and-my-gas-bill 40MPG. Even dual clutch autotragics get 10-30% worse gas mileage compared to posted numbers.
But in the end and the grand scheme of things, it doesn't even matter when the average normie doesn't pay attention to his driving technique's impact on mileage.
Bottom line is, there is no technological or economical basis for the transition, it's fueled purely by normie sloth: normies are so immensely lazy, they will rather waste 50% of power when charging their phones rather than plug in a little cable. They have to let the phone sit on a specific pad and are inconvenienced the same way, but they can't be arsed to plug in a cable. This is the logic behind the automatic transition and that is why it gets ridiculed so much.
As a little side note, I feel less fatigue after 3 hours in a manual than in an automatic (European make, I concede) with cruise control and autonomous lane tracking. Babysitting the computer is more tiring than driving myself, and I'm considering General Safety Regulation 2 (which makes this shit mandatory) to be my breaking point.
