@chines1 posted:I drove a 2019 911T (factory lightweight, more street version of the GT3) a few weeks ago and it automatically rev matches when you down shift.
I can't tell you how badly I would hate that. All the magazines gush about this driver's aid/ "launch control" garbage, then campaign to "save the manuals". If the "manual" car is taking control of throttle/gear-change functions, then no wonder people just buy the paddle-shifted car.
It's a sportscar for crying out loud-- let me do something.
I can kinda' understand the push towards autonomous pods (I guess), in that so very many people live in people-piles, whereby "driving" means "sitting in stop-and-go traffic". What I'll never understand is sportscars taking driver involvement and numbing it or dumbing it to the point where the car says, "hands off, you moron-- I've got this".
I have no desire to drive HAL2000 for pleasure, no matter how much better HAL is than me. As I've said before, George Clooney would probably make a better dinner date for my wife than an orangutan in a polo shirt, but I'm not likely to hire him to take her out for me.