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Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by fomine3 »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #48

> it’s not something you master overnight. I’m not ashamed to mention that it took me a few sessions in a parking lot to get the fundamentals down This kind of line always confuses me. I mean, I remember my first driving lesson in the UK. Guy arrived in a BMW 116, manual. He said to me: what is there to explain, you get in and drive. So I got in and drove. Did my first hour, took 5 minutes to get comfortable with the…

You're quite good about driving. I took not like 5min but like a 6 hours to get used to drive manual including parking at driving lesson.

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by recursivedoubts »

voldacar wrote: post #96
recursivedoubts wrote: post #7

I reiterate my compromise proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397975 I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking. After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are…

The government has made it all but illegal to make a car that isn't ugly

agreed

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by dang »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #91
dang wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, we've put a question mark in the title above—a nice device for indicating that the community finds a title, er, questionable.

But then the answer is “no” by Betteridge’s law :) “ Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179969

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by DawnQFunk3 »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #7

I reiterate my compromise proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397975 I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking. After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are…

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Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by Judgmentality »

voldacar wrote: post #96
recursivedoubts wrote: post #7

I reiterate my compromise proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397975 I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking. After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are…

The government has made it all but illegal to make a car that isn't ugly

As someone who hates how ugly modern cars have become, I can also acknowledge the extraordinary leap in safety they've achieved since then. Many of the rules are designed around safety.

Although a counterpoint to this is the giant A pillars limit visibility so much as to be dangerous themselves.

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by kazinator »

HyperSane wrote: post #5
ggm wrote: post #2

It's faster, it's more fuel economic and it reduces engine wear

If you read the article is says that dual clutch automatics are much faster than manual transmission and most modern automatics have 7 to 10 gears for better fuel efficiency but no one is willing to use a manual transmission with that many gears.

> dual clutch automatics are much faster than manual transmission and most modern automatics have 7 to 10 gears for better fuel efficiency

In what < $15K econobox? :)

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by DaveExeter »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #92
legitster wrote: post #42

I wouldn't jump to this conclusion just yet! Porsche, Ferrari, etc all commanded huge premiums this year for their manual versions. Specifically among younger buyers and first time buyers! You even see this effect downmarket - Toyota promised to never make a manual version of their Supra, then just this last year they put together a cobbled transmission to save their car. Manuals are also an order of magnitude less c…

Huge premiums != large market. It just means the market is bigger than their production. Manual transmissions are not "an order of magnitude less complex and cheaper." They're far more expensive because the volume is much lower and every configuration has to be crash-tested, so the cost of that crash testing is amortized over a much, much smaller number of vehicles. Manual transmission vehicles get significantly wors…

Nah. Manual transmissions are better.

Re: The end of the manual transmission is near?

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Post by melony »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #7

I reiterate my compromise proposal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32397975 I will give up my manual transmission, if you will bring back pull-knobs, twist knobs and other tactile switches for the main controls of my vehicle, with the appropriate tactile feedback at set points so I can set them without looking. After thinking on it, I am going to raise my demands, however: you also need to produce cars that are…

Here's a better compromise, a semi-automatic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_transmission

You choose when to change the gears but the computer deals with the clutch, best of both worlds.

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