I am familiar with dsgs but they are mechanically more akin to a manual transmission than your traditional automatic. Its semantics but a DSG is a dual clutch transmission, i.e its an electronicly controlled manual transmission with 2 sets of clutchs for the even and odd gears which gives them there performance verus your traditional automatic which uses a torque converter that sequentially moves through the gears with more power train loss and lag.
I am familiar with dsgs but they are mechanically more akin to a manual transmission than your traditional automatic. Its semantics but a DSG is a dual clutch transmission, i.e its an electronicly controlled manual transmission with 2 sets of clutchs for the even and odd gears which gives them there performance verus your traditional automatic which uses a torque converter that sequentially moves through the gears with more power train loss and lag.