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aarRJaay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s slowly starting to become a lost art though, there’s definitely more and more automatics around, starting with all electric cars.

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  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Automatics have clutches too, they are operated, as expected, automatic. A car without a clutch has just one gear.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s unnecessary to be pedantic. We seem to have a pretty common understanding that the clutch in this context commonly implies manual transmission, and the vast majority of people have no idea how an automatic/CVT of any kind works or what the internal parts are.

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      • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the vast majority of people have no idea how an automatic/CVT of any kind works or what the internal parts are.

        So I explained automatic transmission has an automated clutch, but sorry for explaining that.

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    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The overwhelming majority of automatic transmissions made in the last 85 years have had torque converters, not automatically operated clutches (referring to the primary connection between motor and driveline, not torque converter lockup clutches or transmission clutch packs). Cars that use the automatic equivalent of a manual clutch pedal have really only been practically produced in the last 15 years in the form of dual wet clutch automatics.

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    • despoticruin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A car without a clutch could also just be a funny car. They don’t really have a clutch, it’s more a bullseye looking thing that drops in stages. Basically if you try to dump 3000+ horses into first gear metal tends to explode, so you dump multiple stages that just roast until you get speed. You still have gears, but it’s less of a clutch and more of a time delay friction welding system attached to the crankshaft.

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  • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not just automatics anymore, but also

  • CVTs, especially forneconoboxes that used to be manual
  • electronic shifters, sort of automatic
  • automatic, with more and more gears
  • EVs don’t need a transmission

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• snf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The change is coming for you guys as well. I’ve travelled to Colombia on a regular basis over the past 20 years or so, and transmisión mecánica has gone from nearly ubiquitous to almost exclusively an econobox option. Maybe performance cars as well I guess? Wouldn’t know about those

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