Car population increasing from year to year. Several countries experienced the traffic jam problem. In such situation, manual transmission is not a wise choice anymore. You will get exhausted easily playing the clutch when you're at traffic jam with your manual transmission car. Manual transmission give you a nice driving experience while Automatic transmission give you a relax driving. But nowadays due to rapid growth in technology, automatic transmission able to let you feel the manual transmission driving experience. 
What you need is to optimize your car Automatic transmission. When you need a relax driving, simply put the transmission to D. But if you want manual transmission feel, here is the tips. If you driving a 4-speed A/T (Automatic Transmission), usually they have P, R, N, D, 2, L or P, R, N, D, 2,1 or whatever but it is the same. It just using a different name. the idea is that L or 1 for go upwards road or very low speed because the transmission locked in gear-1 or speed-1. Then 2, the transmission locked in gear-2 or speed-2 by means it can use up to gear-2 only. So if it is in stop condition and you put it to 2, it will start using gear-1 and then move to gear-2 in certain speed but will not move to speed-3. Then if you put the transmission to D, switch off the overdrive (refer to your manual book where is the overdrive button at your car, usually at the shift knob), the transmission locked in gear-3. When you switch the overdrive on, the transmission will use up to its final gear which is gear-4. So you can control the gear and able to boost the RPM higher and reach the maximum torque.
Nowadays, manufacturer realize this problem and usually they equip the car with A/T that can shift the gear manually but without the clutch. Not all the car, some car mostly city car still using the "traditional" 4-speed A/T by concerning the cost of production. Some of the example for modern A/T is Tiptronic Transmission, Shiftronic Transmission, and Steptronic Transmission. Usually they have another position for shifting the gear, look at the picture. Or some of them give the shift at the steer or what we call paddleshift. Another option is sport mode, 
some of car equip it. Press the sport button on or shift to the sport mode to activate it. how it works is just the same with usual A/T but it will move to higher gear in higher RPM than usual D mode, take an example if your car transmission move to higher gear at 2,500RPM, then when you activate the sport mode, it will maybe move to higher gear when the Rpm reached 3,500 or 4,000.
I want to share Honda Jazz A/T first edition at my country, some of country call it Honda Vitz. I don't know whether it applied same A/T with your country. Honda use intelligent A/T for Honda Jazz. Honda called it CVT 7-speed. It has usual P, R, N, D, S, L. Yes, it change the 2 to S which is Sport mode. "So we can't shift like what explain above?"
Hey, what for? Honda equip paddleshift which is you can move the gear using button on the steer. But it has 7-speed. Not a real 7-speed, but it is virtual 7-speed, so when you shifting using paddleshift, you can shift the gear until speed-7. Look at the picture. So if you own Honda Jazz, you can choose D mode for relax driving, S mode for better driving experience, or you can using paddleshift and shift the gear anytime you want.You can read other useful tips about car in this site by clicking here.
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