they exist, so called smg by bmw
it is literally a manual transmission with fancy hydraulics which operate the gears and the clutch
you have pedals at the steering wheel and the shifter which lets you switch in the next higher or lower gear, no clutch pedal
takeoff is quite smooth when everything is in good shape, shifting feels like an eternity.
sequential paddle shifters are not what OP is talking about.
Why would you go through all the trouble of automising a transmission, and then put a weak, failing human link in it's operation?
>How hard could it be to hook up an automatic to a fake clutch pedal and stick with a computer to run it all?
Pretty damn hard. You can't do it a to a torque convertor auto, which leaves single and double clutch transmissions. Single clutch autos suck big fat donkey balls, and Porsche literally uses the same cogs and housings for their DCT's and manuals. If anyone could come up with a scheme to combine the two, it'd be them. They'd be rolling in money, because everybody would pay out of the ass for the next GT2 RS with auto-manual shifting.
>stronger modern automatic
Modern automatics are not strong. The only strong automatics are ancient TC units, the modern TC units are incredibly complicated to run 8+ gears, and DCT and SCT transmissions have appaling failure rates.
>SMG
Not a manual clutch operation, therefore, not a manual.
Also, single clutch, so sucks big fat donkey balls.
It's been done but without the clutch peddle. You just end up with all the disadvantages of both with little benefit
>Modern automatics are not strong.
The whole of the industry would disagree with you. Peter Quintus of BMW explains:
drive.com.au
Dual clutch was so shit BMW dropped it altogether, switching back to a zf good ol' classic torque converter + planetary gearset
ditto for maserati
>Trusting nu-bmw ever
It'd be weird not feeling the clutch bite if the computer was taking care of everything
Electronic steering and pedals are already bad enough, and you want to take away the stick shift too? Fucking kill yourself.
>unnessary complex
>slower than traditional manual
>more expensive than manual
What is the point?
>hi i drive automatic
fuck off kid