For The First Time (or the last time): 1939: first American cars with automatic transmission
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Why does an automatic transmission shifting go from parking to reverse, neutral, and drive? Like why not parking into neutral then drive then reverse? - Quora
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When Was the First Automatic Transmission Invented?
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