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The future of the manual transmission

Picture I Kimmo Huosionmaa The manual gearbox is the thing, what has been used in the automobiles for many years. Professional drivers on the racetracks and transport business are flagged for years that the manual gearbox is the best in the business. But the problem of this type of transmission are people, who are driving using too small gear, and that causes the increasing of fuel consumption. The myth of the highest consumption automatic gearboxes can be tracked from the big size American V-8 cars from the 1960's. The manual gearbox is more economic than automatic gear if the person is an experienced driver, who knows how to change the gear in the right speed, and in that case, the manual gearbox is more economic than the automatic gearbox. And in the trucking the gears, what is used in the transmission must be so hard and massive, that the analogic automatic gearbox systems don't operate with heavy duty trucks. But when we are thinking about electronic equipment

Forgotten solution for automobiles: Steam car

Steam car (Pinterest) Kimmo Huosionmaa There is one solution from the past, what might be interested some techno-freaks. That thing is the car, what uses steam engines. The idea of steam-engine cars is, that it uses the steam engine and the problem is, that it was complicated to use, and the gasoline motor replaced it, when Karl Bentz and Gottlieb Daimler made the first car, what used combustion engine.  Steam cars had the oven on the right side and the passenger must put the wood to the oven when the car was in use. There was one thing, what made the steam car able to compete with the combustion car in the early years of the automobile, and that was the ability to use wood as the fuel, but when petroleum stations became common, steam cars remained in history.  When we are talking with the piston-engine steam cars, they were complicated to use, because the pressure in the system must be raised, before the car was able to move. And when the people wanted to dri