Why would I use them? Does the minus make me slow, and the plus fast?
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For ANY car, low gears give your car more torque (easier to start pushing your car forward), while higher gears give your car more power (easier to *keep* your car moving at a given speed).
In a manual car, you must correctly shift gears up and down based on what you need.
In an automatic car, it does this for you… Automatically.
In those same automatic cars, there’s typically an electronically handled manual option. You pick the gear, the car handles shifting without dealing with the fun of a clutch on your manual car.
Some automatic cars (and even manual cars) have the gear shifters on the wheel to make it quicker to shift.
There is no functional difference between a paddle shifter and traditional stick shift. It’s just convenience, speed, and to an extent safety (no need to take a hand off the wheel).
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