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Toyota to offer manual gearbox in next-generation electric cars (www.autocar.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't really see the point of this. It's just adding complexity for the sake of it. As far as I can tell when you change gear it just changes some software parameters, there are no physical gears. Yet there's a clutch and the ability to stall?

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[+] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They’re not all technically the same manual you have in a car. F1, for instance, shifts with buttons

[–] LemmyIsFantastic 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they aren't
most teams are using a sequential which is basically an auto with flappy paddles or a up down lever. You ain't using a clutch except to get into first.
because it's a driving aid and people don't like that shit. ABS is about the only aids people accept.

I don't care if you're fucking max verstappen, you ain't shifting faster than a Porsche or Ferrari DCT.

[–] Aux 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No one is using a manual in motorsports.

[–] Death_Equity 1 points 1 year ago

Define "motorsports".

Time attack, drifting, autocross, and drag racers all have manuals used.

[–] Fetus 1 points 1 year ago

No drag racer ever used a powerglide? And would you really consider F1 cars to be manual?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The gears in motorsport are manual where as the gears in EV are software.