Not true. I've been riding dirtbikes and sportbikes since I was a kid. It doesn't wear them out. There's no racing school that teaches you to use the clutch or double clutch in their dog-ring equipped formula cars. It's completely unnecessary.
Nicely said. It is an art .... like Martial Arts vs kickboxing, color by numbers vs painting etc. DTC may be better than a regular automatic but if you listened to Pony wars, for instance, they were complaining the auto wouldn't be in the right gear for leaving a turn or perhaps the second turn. So all that power was great but without the brain to see what was going to happen vs what was happening the auto trans was just off.
Because you can't put it in manual mode and select the gears yourself?
Better yet, maybe someday there will be a app for your phone. You could simply download a app that has every track in the world on it and all you have to do is show up and your phone does everything for you! Cars are really the last thing when it comes to autonomous vehicles. Boats, trains, drones and planes have been autonomous for years! Sure there maybe someone there to take over when the computer has a glitch but for the most part technology is doing the work! Even sometimes the vehicle could even be controlled by a remote source that has a better view or data than the actual driver, captain or pilot. It's almost a full circle like back in the day of running RC cars around a track from a tower. Except now the tower could be in China and the RC car could be on any track in the world. One thing for sure us technology is moving faster than all of us! Don't get me wrong guys I understand the whole Auto/DCT movement but I'm personally going to hang on to my 3rd pedal and shift knob as long as I can. I'm not hating on anyone for their choice but I'm really confused why so many are hating on manuals. You rather have a Auto/DCT? That's awesome, start a thread of Auto/DCT or bust! Personally I love all vehicles but that doesn't mean I can't be disappointed now and then. With that said if we're going to continue to beat a dead horse let's try to not make it personal! I love all you guys/gals and even those who are not sure!!Because you can't put it in manual mode and select the gears yourself?
Randy pobst says the PDK & GM's transmissions shift in automatic mode better than he does manually.
Youre so far out of your element, its laughable. do you NEED to double clutch? no, it will allow you to do it. Do you want to if your not racing/WOT? yes, if you dont want to replace things every thousand miles. need and highly suggested are not the same.
Yes due to my years of riding bikes and personally seeing the lack of wear on the dogrings from never using the clutch; and learning that racing schools don't teach double clutch downshifting and they don't replace dog rings very often because otherwise they'd go out of business with the service costs maintaining fleets of formula cars. Those cars get beat up from all the students with varying levels of abilities, and yet there's no concern for excessive dog ring wear.
Really...... that's interesting. Care to expand on that? I fly aircraft and I don't know how you came up with that statement. Please expand on that. I'm sure everyone wouldn't mind another entertaining sidetrack.
Depending on the aggressiveness and angle of the dog rings, it can be beneficial to double clutch downshift to extend the life of aggressively cut rings. But this is mostly the case for tight tolerence gearboxes in professional endurance racing -moreso 5-15 years ago, and not applicable to paddle shifted gearboxes in pro racing.
I had a PPG dogbox, and I needed new dog rings after about 2 years of pretty heavy use. It's actually fairly inexpensive to replace the dog rings. The money is in the labor to do it. I started having issues with 3rd gear jumping out.
Lets start with the definition of Autonomous- "denoting or performed by a device capable of operating without direct human control". Even commercial Autopilot technology fits that definition since it has been flying and landing planes for years. The government has aircraft that is capable of taking off, flying and even landing on a aircraft carriers completely atononmos.
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There's plenty of autonomous aircraft out there and I'm not talking about drones. Plenty of commercial jet autopilot abilities falls under the definition you supplied. Feel free to keep trying to split hairs, I'm sure next you will be arguing that a DCT is not a automatic transmission! Thanks for trying and have a safe flight!
Name them.
No, they don't. I fly them.
Splitting hairs..... No, calling out someone who has no idea what he is talking about.Feel free to keep trying to split hairs, I'm sure next you will be arguing that a DCT is not a automatic transmission! Thanks for trying and have a safe flight!
