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Originally Posted by Aerospike
What if you're braking and 'manually' downshifting from 5 to 3? The car still downshifts as you slow down. You push the stick up twice to go down two gears and the car decides to do its own thing and drop a gear. You end up in second gear instead of third, over rev, and have a very expensive oops. Rev limiter/fuel cutoff won't help isn't design to help in this case.
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I don't follow. When you start downshifting "manually", the car enters manual mode and
does not automatically downshift as it normally would in full auto mode.
More importantly, the car will not allow any downshift (manual or auto) that would put you past the redline, in either mode.