I’m sorry if this is a dumb question. I know virtually nothing about cars. I really am trying to learn but sometimes I don’t understand the way they explain some things… anyway, thank you 🙂
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If I need to stop in an emergency like someone cut me off I’ll down shift the gear towards (-) to get a smoother “more powerful” stop. Instead of slamming the breaks. It puts pressure off the brakes and uses the transmission to help to slow down. Also as others have said it can be used for snowy weather or towing. Newer cars have a computer that decides if it wants you to shift gears manually. Usually if the computer deems it an unsafe move it won’t let you and will beep. Like trying to manually shift a car that’s going 70 mph down to 2nd or 1st gear.
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