Waste fuel, and they don’t always do what you want them to do, or sometimes lag before they do it.
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jdeath@lemm.ee 1 day agothose transmissions are only better on paper. sure they could be theoretically better but in practice the transmission programming is to way over aggressively upshift in order to miser out a little more fuel economy on paper (but in practice they waste fuel)
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 day ago
InputZero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
True, and as someone who’s been driving the same stick shift for almost 15 years now, you can take it from my cold dead hands. I haven’t seen anything with a beltless cvt, and I haven’t seen an automatic transmission I like more than my five speed, except in traffic. The tech exists, although it’s not available.