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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by kps on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:16AM (#12978102) 

  > It will happily shift up 2 seconds before I hit the brakes because
  > it has no idea I'm planning to take a left turn in 20 meters.
Purely hypothetically, a car could be fitted with an operator control to convey that sort of intent. It could be something the driver could operate without taking their hands off the wheel — perhaps a stick on the left of the steering column?
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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by fnj on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:59PM (#12980290)
You already have one of those. If you are driving a 4-speed automatic, you can see that you are in 3rd and sense that it might be about to upshift and a turn is coming up, you can whip it from D to 3 to hold it in 3rd for the duration.
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