Why do modern cars come with up to 10-Speed automatic transmissions, yet we still only have 6-speed manual transmissions?

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Why do modern cars come with up to 10-Speed automatic transmissions, yet we still only have 6-speed manual transmissions?

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Automatic transmissions work by chaining multiple planetary gearsets in different ways, this is quite complicated to explain, but basically it means that they don’t really need ho have 10 actual gears like a manual, the gear ratios are created by combing the same gears in different ways