The records of civil registration in England & Wales which commenced on 1 July 1837, relate to the birth, marriage and death of an individual. In Scotland records began in 1855 and in Ireland in 1864 (n.b. Irish non-Catholic marriages were recorded from 1845).
With the shift lever in D (Drive), the tap shift controls will activate a temporary tap manual shift mode, allowing the transmission to be manually shifted. Automatic shifts return after no manual shifts have been done for seven to 10 second.
This means that there is less of a delay between when the driver taps the paddle shifter and when the transmission actually up-shifts. For the 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, and 4-5 shifts, the delay is actually reduced by 200 to 300 milliseconds with the new TapShift technology. At 60 MPH, this means the automatic transmission will respond about 18 feet sooner when you hit the paddle shifter than technology used to allow. The new TapShift technology on the 2012 Camaro ZL1 gives the car a zero-to-60 time of 3.9 seconds, a full tenth of a second faster than a manual-equipped car.