From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Tim Merrigan   wrote:   
   >On 10/7/2025 9:26 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >> If fully autonomous cars are available, I can see *many* people   
   >> forgoing learning to drive by hand, just as few Americans   
   >> learn to use a manual transmission.   
   >   
   >One of my few objections to electric cars (as I understand, the motors   
   >in EVs drive the wheels directly, with no need for a drive train or   
   >transmission).  I learned to drive, at both my and my father's   
   >insistence, with a manual transmission, and have been driving one for   
   >most* of my life since.   
      
   Morgan was talking about making an electric car using an induction motor   
   with a relatively narrow speed range, replacing the engine in a 4/4 but   
   keeping the rest of the drive train including the manual transmission.   
   I love the idea; it is so British.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)