I said (paraphrased):
Transmisions will still be necessary
Bob Rice said:
> Direct
> drive is the way to go on the new Transportation appliances, anyhow? I go
> along with John Wayland on this one!
I disagree, obviously. If everyone only drove one speed it would be
reasonable to engineer a drive system for that specific rotational speed.
For some people that makes sense, they do only accelerate to a certain speed
and continue at that speed. For me, just today i was on roads with
reasonable driving speeds from 30 to 90 miles per hour, I believe
engineering a transmissionless vehicles to be efficient it a range that
large is insurmountable. Of course changes in the transmission and the usage
of it will be necessary, but I do believe that a transmission will be
necesssary. Also with a vehicle with a top speed of 90+ it will be very
difficult to maintain a safe speed in a parking lot, a small twitch of the
foot would be the difference between 5 and 30 mph, so a driver concept of a
transmission is useful, even if it is just a controller limiter.
Joe
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