08/05/2020
Understanding your Vehicle 一
Automatic Car ( Gearing) System (2)
Also 'D2' 'D3' functions are designed for emergency scenario, a situation where your gear in 'D' could not change itself automatically due to electrical or mechanical malfunctioning, all you need to do is to drive the car manually and it has no side effect on your car.
Some automatic cars dont have such d1, d2, rather they have +/- .The plus shifts up while minus down shifts the gear.
Some like mercedes have it also behind the steerin like paddles.
Mercedes C-class, ML and Volks passat cars, never upshift or downshift except in extreme cases of engine revolution above or below safety limit.
It makes the experience similar to driving a manual car without the third pedal
Unlike the manual, you can change gears to upshift or downshift as asserted without having to hit on your brake pedals at such extremes of speeding by suppressing the k**b on the head of the gear shift selector handle to pick on the specified gear you wish to be on.
So for automatic, if I'm moving at, say 120km/hr on 'D', I can just change to, say 'D2' without stepping on the brakes, and the car will slow down automatically?
A professional drivers use this to control when they want their cars to shift to lower or higher gears at the right rpm.
Drive safely. ...
