Here are two situations in which having automatic gates could be useful.

You have a very long driveway

Fence contractors will sometimes advise clients who have long driveways to get automatic gates fitted. This might be something you should consider if your driveway is so long that it takes several minutes to get from its entrance to your house and vice versa.

The reason for this is that if you have a long driveway and manual gates and you forget to close those gates after going through them and going inside your home, it will probably take quite a bit of time to return to them and close them. This could become tiring if you regularly make this error. Furthermore, if the driveway's entrance is several minutes' walk away and you cannot see its entrance from the house, it might not be immediately apparent if the gates are open, so if you forget to close them, they could remain open until the next time you leave the property. This could be an issue if your gates are used to deter uninvited people from entering the property.

In these circumstances, having gates that will close automatically could save you energy and time, by allowing you to avoid having to make multiple trips to and from the property entrance to close them every day. It would also mean that you wouldn't need to be concerned about opportunistic people walking onto your property because the gates have been left open.

You leave and then return to your home several times a day

If you have children who need to be collected from school and taken to their after-school activities and social events, or if you have a job that involves regularly driving to lots of different places, then you may find yourself leaving and returning to your home many times every day. If this is the case, then you'd probably find it very helpful to get a fence contractor to put some automatic gates at your property's entrance.

The reason for this is that although you might not mind opening the gates by hand just a couple of times each day, it might become frustrating and amount to a lot of wasted time if you have to do it, for example, ten times a day. Having automatic gates that eliminate this task could make leaving and returning to your home faster and simpler. It also means that you can, for example, leave your house at the last minute if you need to, instead of having to set aside a few extra minutes for each trip, to account for the time that it takes to open the gates, drive through them and then close them.