>>212028358
Better control of your vehicle. For example: You are driving on a lane where the limit is 80km/h, in front of you is some old fart barely driving past 60, so you could over take. What to do with an automatic here? Yes, you just push the pedal and wait for it to accelerate and take over very slowly, and if you are unlucky, you shock the old fart and he proceeds to accelerate too
With shifting gears you are able to accelerate way faster in between speed limits according to your gears, which means your acceleration is faster than waiting for the automatic to reach the same speed, and you are able to slow down faster then to avoid a crash because the old fart also just has a heart attack
