The model T also sported a planetary gearbox like as in modern automatic transmissions.Rope-Pusher wrote:Speakin F con trolls, day din use tubey S standard eyesed S day R tudae:
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What is it about the leg?
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Re: What is it about the leg?
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theholycow wrote:Why in the world would you even want to be as smooth as an automatic? Might as well just drive an automatic...
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Re: What is it about the leg?
...actually, if your left leg was gone, the thing to do would be to get normal hand controls for gas and brake and use your right leg to operate the clutch pedal. Problem solved.tankinbeans wrote:Which would you use for the gas?Rope-Pusher wrote:Why do you say that? For both, there is a brief period of carefully-modulated operation and the rest of the time you treat them each like on/off controls.tankinbeans wrote:Operating the clutch with the right foot seems dangerous.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Yep, I think they have hand gas and brake for guys who have no legs. There are all sorts of handicapped retrofits out there. No reason we can't adapt them to our needs.theholycow wrote:...actually, if your left leg was gone, the thing to do would be to get normal hand controls for gas and brake and use your right leg to operate the clutch pedal. Problem solved.
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theholycow wrote:Why in the world would you even want to be as smooth as an automatic? Might as well just drive an automatic...
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Re: What is it about the leg?
theholycow wrote: ...actually, if your left leg was gone, the thing to do would be to get normal hand controls for gas and brake and use your right leg to operate the clutch pedal. Problem solved.
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A car with lots of horsepower is cool, but I don't want the horse to drive, thank you very much.Rope-Pusher wrote:
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Re: What is it about the leg?
Simple. Pecker should do the job.tankinbeans wrote:Which would you use for the gas?Rope-Pusher wrote:Why do you say that? For both, there is a brief period of carefully-modulated operation and the rest of the time you treat them each like on/off controls.tankinbeans wrote:Operating the clutch with the right foot seems dangerous.
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