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I certainly had no idea until this very thread that there might be any sort of difference. Like that Reddit user, I (quite reasonably) concluded that AWD and 4W
by bigstrat2003 2y ago
I certainly had no idea until this very thread that there might be any sort of difference. Like that Reddit user, I (quite reasonably) concluded that AWD and 4WD were the same thing since a car has four wheels.
- Moru 2y agoIf it would be the same thing, they would all use the 4WD term that has been a thing since a long time.
- guax 2y agoSure. Car manufacturers do not reinvent terms for marketing. They all agree on the same term always.
- kelnos 2y agoExactly. Mercedes calls theirs "4MATIC", which might make you think it's 4WD, but nope, it's AWD. (Technically the full name for it is "4MATIC AWD", but no one actually calls it that.)
- mort96 2y agoWithout looking up etymologies of these terms, I have no inclination that one of them is older than the other.
- KeplerBoy 2y agoIs hyperthreading and Simultaneous multithreading the same thing? Is Smart Access Memory the same as resizable base address register(reBAR)?
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- diego_sandoval 2y ago> a car has four wheels. Most cars at least :^)
- Dalewyn 2y ago>since a car has four wheels. Some cars have only three. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-wheeler
- klondike_klive 2y agoMy dad drove a three-wheeler Reliant Robin while he was learning to drive a car, because they are legal to drive on a motorbike licence. I accidentally wrenched the gear stick out of it once. Thankfully I was going at v low speed on private land.
- ljf 2y agohttp://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwheelcar.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/nwheelcar/nwhee... - a classic read 'N Wheeled Vehicles'
- red-iron-pine 2y agosure, some do. but 99% of those on the road are running 4. when you hear hooves do you think horses, or zebras?
- Dalewyn 2y agoNeither: Coconuts. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect