Re: Forcing an *up*shift in an automatic--mpgs

Nate Nagel wrote:
Steve wrote:

Sticks are fun to drive, but there's something absolutely stone-age about grinding an unlubricated piece of friction material into a metal flywheel to make the car move and then change gears.... especially when replacing that friction material means you have to drop the transmission and (usually) have to re-machine the flywheel.



It's no more stone age than stepping on the brake pedal. It's not like there's any significant slippage or wear in normal operation of the clutch, anyway.


Stepping on the brake /is/ stone-age. The very idea that all that energy is dissipated into heat is an affront to any person with sci-tech thinking. A system with 4 electric motors and electro-dynamic braking would be so much better. But they killed the electric car, right?
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