"automatic shift" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of transmission or gearbox found in a vehicle where you don't need to switch gears manually. For example, "The new model of car has an automatic shift for a smoother ride."
This marks, she decides, "the automatic shift into wifehood", after a long period of "happy exemption".
Yet the automatic shift lock did not entirely do away with sudden acceleration incidents — as the Toyota problems illustrate.
To fix the problem, Audi designed something called an automatic shift lock, which, when the car is being started, keeps the transmission in park unless and until the brake pedal is depressed.
Audi ultimately gave the world's other automakers the rights to the patent on the automatic shift lock and by the mid-1990s virtually all new cars had adopted the feature or some variant of it.
Activate it by lifting a bat-wing-shaped black button that resides behind the automatic shift knob.
An override button on the dash puts the car into automatic shift mode, however, just in case one needs a free hand for the cappuccino.
The 5-speed automatic shifted unobtrusively and seemed well matched to the V-6.
My only complaint about the drivetrain involved the software that adapts the automatic shifts to one's driving style.
For instance, while the automatic shifts well, the Honda still has only 5 gears while compacts like the Hyundai Elantra and Ford Focus have moved on to 6-speed automatic gearboxes.
This technology offers automatic shifting but provides better efficiency than conventional automatics because it assures a no-slip mechanical coupling of the engine to the gearbox rather than a fluid coupling.
Ever since the advent of automatic shifts eliminated the need for a clutch (which was depressed by the left foot), I have been using my left foot on the brake and find it quite easy and more convenient than moving the right foot from pedal to pedal.
