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Not really. "Honda’s synthetic manual gearbox is developed to accompany a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N-style set of fake engine noises and gear ratios." This has been don
by Animats 2y ago
Not really. "Honda’s synthetic manual gearbox is developed to accompany a Hyundai Ioniq 5 N-style set of fake engine noises and gear ratios."
This has been done a few times. Some high-end electric car had it about a decade ago. Toyota demoed it in 2022.
There is a Chinese driver training car that has a fake manual transmission setup so people who need to pass manual transmission driving tests can practice.[1] It even simulates stalling the engine. That's probably the only one that's useful.
[1] https://jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-for-driving-schools-1844071179 https://jalopnik.com/this-chinese-electric-car-designed-for-...
- quicklime 2y agoThe article does mention Toyota’s one. On the point about manual transmissions (or simulations thereof) not being “useful”, I think you’re approaching it from the wrong perspective. The people that want them enjoy using them, not unlike how horse riders like riding horses. I guess you could say that horses are “useless” too since cars exist, but that would be missing the point.
- welferkj 2y agoBut, to stretch the analogy, this is basically a car poorly imitating the mechanical operation of a horse, and limiting its own performance to do so.
- jaredhallen 2y agoRight, and horses are not obsolete in all applications. There are still a number of cases where they're the best tool for the job.