I prefer to use gears, but the older I get, the lazier I get, so now it's an automatic. No matter how good the automatic transmission is, it just can't anticip

I prefer to use gears, but the older I get, the lazier I get, so now it's an automatic. No matter how good the automatic transmission is, it just can't anticipate. Am I slowing down because there's a slow car in front of me temporarily, or will I actually come to a stop because of a red light? I can see there's a sharp corner coming up, so I would have shifted down before it. That would both slow me down and give me torque to accelerate around the corner. The transmission can't see. So I will have to brake quite solidly to burn off my speed, wasting energy. And so on. I used to love those twisty mountain roads when I had my SAAB and 5 gears. Now my automatic Merc isn't anywhere near as much fun.