It has been reviewed by Cars.com Senior News ... s “possible to move the lever into 1st gear [L] at any speed. However, the transmission will not actually shift to 1st gear until vehicle speed ...
The first production road car to offer a paddle shift transmission was the 1997 ... to select gears using paddle shifters or the automatic gear lever without the need for a clutch pedal.
Not all automatic transmissions are the same. Modern cars could have a standard ... driver to manually select gears by tapping the shift lever, pushing buttons, or pulling on the flappy paddles ...