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Comment by Marazan

I mean, Europe hasn't even moved over to automatic transmission yet.

That's because automatic transmission is the worst and invented by the devil.

More seriously, using an automatic transmission results in trade-offs, for instance fuel usage was the historical number 1 sticking point with automatics guzzling up the petrol compared to manuals. Modern engineering has closed that gap but there are still issues related to control - ironically a move to fully autonomous cars would solve most of them (principally in non-autonomous cars drivers in manual transmission cars can use knowledge of future road conditions to make gear selection decisions that an automatic transmission cannot make as they have only a limited input set)

parent Marazan 12 years ago

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