^^ My car is a '01 Olds and it has gear 3-2-1 right below 'D' and I never use them. This is because I never rev the car fast enough to warrant that. And when I do occasionally go above 100m/ph I am usually still on 'D'. So I assume the answer is no if you are taking about an automatic transmission vehicle with a couple of independent gears.
On the other hand, manual/automatic transmission such as one in Jinns post would in fact involve communicating with the computer to step up/down a gear.
Jinn: I've driven two vehicles with the option of a manumatic transmission very briefly but not used the function. It may be almost impossible to create the alignment that I depicted above but I do not think it entirely impossible or necessary to have both transmissions side by side. I was thinking along the lines of rearranging the automatic transmission and adding a clutch to it. This additional clutch would separate the entire gearbox from the engine and the extra configuration would allow you to manipulate the gears that way. See where I am going with this, adding, more than changing anything else very much.
MSD: Huh??? j/k
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Originally Posted by MSD
What it looks like you want to do is to turn a manumatic in to a simulated manual through actuation of an extraneous pedal and control systems including logic circuits, pressure switches, and that superfluous pedal to channel the voodoo and magic into the right hydraulic passageways. You'll also have to program and burn code to sets of ICs and run servos to replicate the actions of the shift lever that you disabled when you disassembled and reassembled it in a different pattern.
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This pretty much sums it up very well, except the part about the "IC's". Whats that? I don't think it would be extraneous though. When I set up the virtual reality simulation I will show you how I intend to manipulate the gears by bypassing the existing clutches in the auto configuration while in manual and vice versa.