Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:14:00
on Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Paul Cummins
remarked:

Everyone regards it as an automatic.

As I am part of "everyone" and i don't consider it an automatic, that
statement is false.

If it is an automatic, why does the user have to change gear?

Because it automatically does the clutching/declutching.

And chooses the gear to use, and when to change. Drivers have no need to
know how it works: it's just like any other automatic gearbox.