When you come to a full stop, the car remains standing after letting off the brake. Also prevents rolling backwards on uphill start. That’s auto hold.

And OP is calling that critical? That is in no way a critical driving feature. People drove cars just fine for almost 100 years without it.

I get your point, but I skipped the details there in order to not water down my story there.

In my city, I‘m just using car sharing anymore and they just have ID.3s. Now, half of them come with the feature on, the others off.

If you let the brake go at the traffic lights because the exact same model of car you took on the other way had auto hold activated, but this one doesn’t and the car suddenly starts moving towards the car in front out of the blue, believe me it feels quite critical.

I've owned over 20 different vehicles and none of them have had auto hold. Just hold the brake on!

Blinding them with my brake lights?

This is a strange take on it, defogging is rather critical unless you have a rag handy, you have to see.

Wipers - rather critical. Engine - very critical. Seatbelts - rather critical of you value your life Fuel tank that holds fuel - very critical.

Auto hold is far from critical and I have only encountered it on large trucks back when I was a truck driver.

> Put it in neutral

I think you mean park

Putting it in neutral and letting off the break on a hill would end very badly

If you drive automatic, yes, park is a better choice!