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from my experience, the automatic transmission downshifts whenever you don't press the gas and the car speed deccelerates below some levels for each gear. It does this so that when you decide to accelerate again it will be already in the correct gear and it would not need to downshift after you press the gas pedal again.
Regarding the hill assist feature, I think that its only for going uphill. I think that the tranny downshift and sticks to that gear for a little longer that if the road was level so that it will not have to upshift and downshift again if the road is too steep. I don't think that it has to do with going downhill as the Land Rover and BMW X series transmission feature.
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