I came here to say “wouldn’t have happened with a standard transmission”, but you beat me to it.
Many modern cars are like bumper cars. There’s a start button, a go pedal and a left-right wheel. But driving is not just about making the vehicle do what you want, of course. We live, as they say, in a society, and drivers ed is about the rules of the road and the finer points of driving more than it is about the technical aspects. Although these finer points (hill starts, parking, motor breaking, etc…) are increasingly becoming obsolete as well, as they are taken over by automatic features.
