Automatic transmission
Personally i don't know what the fuss is about.
About five years ago i made an instant switch from manual to automatic - we went and bought one and brought it straight home. Many autos have a foot rest for the left foot - roughly where the clutch would be. The break pedal is in the usual place on the right side yet i keep hearing people saying things like "make sure you keep your left foot right out of the way" as if its going to be some sort of problem! It isn't!
Just remember to keep your foot on the brake when stationary and changing the gear mode. EG from park to drive, keep your foot on the brake. As soon as drive is engaged the car will want to move forwards. To start moving gently let your foot up off the brake and the car will start creeping forwards. Same goes for reverse. Then just use the gas as normal!
It's a doddle mav, you'll be fine
There are often a few other modes such as 3,2 L - which restrict the box to those as being the highest gears it's allowed to use so if you put it in 2, it will use 1st and 2nd but no higher gear. The idea of this is for engine braking on hills except that with a slush box its often pointless in reality as the car still speeds up lol.
As for M.. sounds like you have a *tronic box which lets you also go into manual mode and operate it like a manual. Remember though you still have no clutch for this so you have have to press a button when changing gears or something - never driven a tronic box'd car so can't say more than that.
About five years ago i made an instant switch from manual to automatic - we went and bought one and brought it straight home. Many autos have a foot rest for the left foot - roughly where the clutch would be. The break pedal is in the usual place on the right side yet i keep hearing people saying things like "make sure you keep your left foot right out of the way" as if its going to be some sort of problem! It isn't!
Just remember to keep your foot on the brake when stationary and changing the gear mode. EG from park to drive, keep your foot on the brake. As soon as drive is engaged the car will want to move forwards. To start moving gently let your foot up off the brake and the car will start creeping forwards. Same goes for reverse. Then just use the gas as normal!
It's a doddle mav, you'll be fine
There are often a few other modes such as 3,2 L - which restrict the box to those as being the highest gears it's allowed to use so if you put it in 2, it will use 1st and 2nd but no higher gear. The idea of this is for engine braking on hills except that with a slush box its often pointless in reality as the car still speeds up lol.
As for M.. sounds like you have a *tronic box which lets you also go into manual mode and operate it like a manual. Remember though you still have no clutch for this so you have have to press a button when changing gears or something - never driven a tronic box'd car so can't say more than that.
I have always said I'm not interested in driving an automatic and always requested a manual courtesy car. It'll be interesting to see if my view changes once I have driven this automatic (Vauxhall Mokka 1.4)!
I seem to remember being told many years ago that one is meant to ease off the accelerator just as a gear change is about to happen was/is that still the case?
@7up I can imagine that my left hand and foot will both feel a little redundant and twitchy but can't ever picture using the left foot for braking - just wouldn't feel right I can see doing an emergency stop and trying to put my left foot through the floor as a reflex 
I seem to remember being told many years ago that one is meant to ease off the accelerator just as a gear change is about to happen was/is that still the case?
@7up I can imagine that my left hand and foot will both feel a little redundant and twitchy but can't ever picture using the left foot for braking - just wouldn't feel right
I can see doing an emergency stop and trying to put my left foot through the floor as a reflex
