ArmedAviator wrote:Every car nowadays has this. It's easier to engineer a car to change its shifting pattern to suit many different drivers. A young guy vs an old lady will no doubt drive the same car differently. The old lady may complain it revs too much and is noisy and shifts harsh if it is always sporty. The young guy may say it shifts too slow and soft and too early if it's programmed more for an old lady. So they find a happy medium and also allow the computer to "tailor" itself to the driver style.
Of course it's still a compromise.
If you want a car that doesn't "learn," buy an old carbureted, manual sports car. Set it how you like it and enjoy.
Unfortunately you're not always in a position to drive it like you stole it. If I had my choice I would always drive fast. However, there are days when there is bumper to bumper traffic which you can't avoid and the computer learns your stop and go traffic and learns this as your driving style, which is the point the previous poster ICRF was trying to make. Fact is the car has multiple settings that just don't work properly. The old lady should be driving in normal/standard mode and the young guy should be driving in sport mode. Sport should not have to adjust to my driving style, it should stay SPORT. Normal should stay normal.
I personally think it's an easy out for engineers who cannot figure out how to make a transmission shift properly. Just tell the end user that it's a feature....(adaptive driving style)