Lets talk automatic transmissions: To creep or not to creep?

[Barney [CA]]

Autocreeping comes in very handy in heavy trafficjams. Also, driving off from standstill might feel smoother for some people. Maybe back in the days when the automatic transmissions weren’t so well developed, the start was too rough or it just had technical reasons and was since then just kept like that...

€: i used to drive a volvo v70(old version in the 90s, diesel) and i recall it being very unsmooth when i took my foot of the brake and quickly accelerated before it started rolling automatically.