I am from Brazil, here the population hates "hydramatic" cars as they call automatic cars.
I saw one accident that the cause was lack of transmission knowing the future:
road crossing, bad road signs didn't made clear who had priority, so both drivers went forward.
Both cars tried then to stop, but the automatic car instead had just shifted up, then as the driver tried to stop, it lurched forward and hit the other car, then it spun and crashed on the wall of a school.
The automatic car was a sports car from the 70s though, so I guess the transmission was even more dangerous.
I saw one accident that the cause was lack of transmission knowing the future:
road crossing, bad road signs didn't made clear who had priority, so both drivers went forward.
Both cars tried then to stop, but the automatic car instead had just shifted up, then as the driver tried to stop, it lurched forward and hit the other car, then it spun and crashed on the wall of a school.
The automatic car was a sports car from the 70s though, so I guess the transmission was even more dangerous.