I think - just me thinking again - oh no - that the MOD Deiter auto hasn't received much talk on the subject is it was anounced as being available or many people were led to believe it was available so long ago that by now many of us have sort of given up on it as ever going to actually exist. Also the manual version is listed at a retail price of $335 in my book and that leaves me shuddering to think what the auto version is going to sell for when it doesn't actually seem to have that many obvious features which would warrant such a price. You asked...I say it like I see it. Sure you can cut seatbelts with the handle, but in the half century I have been in operation on this planet, I haven't once had the need to cut a seat belt and figure if I ever really DO need to, I have a lot of other blades that will do the same a lot cheaper.