Toyota to offer manual gearbox in next-generation electric cars | Autocar
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New system is intended to offer greater involvement in EV sports cars – we drive it

I don’t really see the point of this. It’s just adding complexity for the sake of it. As far as I can tell when you change gear it just changes some software parameters, there are no physical gears. Yet there’s a clutch and the ability to stall?

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
      4•11 months ago

      They’re not all technically the same manual you have in a car. F1, for instance, shifts with buttons

    • @LemmyIsFantastic
      3•11 months ago
      1. they aren’t
      2. most teams are using a sequential which is basically an auto with flappy paddles or a up down lever. You ain’t using a clutch except to get into first.
      3. because it’s a driving aid and people don’t like that shit. ABS is about the only aids people accept.

      I don’t care if you’re fucking max verstappen, you ain’t shifting faster than a Porsche or Ferrari DCT.

    • @Aux
      1•11 months ago

      No one is using a manual in motorsports.

      • @Death_Equity
        1•11 months ago

        Define “motorsports”.

        Time attack, drifting, autocross, and drag racers all have manuals used.

    • @Fetus
      1•11 months ago

      No drag racer ever used a powerglide? And would you really consider F1 cars to be manual?

    • TigrisMorte
      -1•11 months ago

      The gears in motorsport are manual where as the gears in EV are software.