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About gears in an auto car?

I was wondering about the gears in an auto cobalt, there‘s park, reverse, neutral, drive, and intermediate, and Low I looked up the low and intermediate gears, and they say it‘s basically 1st and 2nd gear, so I was wondering If it‘s used the same way as a stick, you know where you go from 1st to 2nd and so on, I wondered if your able to instead of putting it in drive put it on low, accelerate and once rpm is high you put it in intermediate. Sometimes when I‘m at a stop light I put it in intermediate and the car somewhat accelerates differently

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lol i did that when i got bored of my automatic (pretended it was manual by shifting from 2 to 3 to drive) but no it is not good to do just leave it in drive, the low intermediate gears are used for going up steep hills, or going up steep hills when towing something heavy, most of the time unless a hill is insanely steep leaving it in drive is fine
New cars shift by the computer and are set to shift at a certain rpm. Starting out by putting your car in drive is actually starting it in first gear, which will give you the fastest acceleration. The newer cars will not take the beating like the older ones. It is best to not manually shift a automatic.
it is fine to use an auto ans shift around in the gears, the system and process is simple in theory. as you start off you will be in 1st and as the speed build so will the oil pressure which operating a clamping system or belt which locks down on the outer part of the gear which transfers then to the next gear and so on. in the event you are really interested. go to a auto dismantler or auto repairer and ask to have a look at one in bits

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