<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com">dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:36, Art Edwards<br>
<<a href="mailto:edwardsa@icantbelieveimdoingthis.com">edwardsa@icantbelieveimdoingthis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Interesting that you brought up push button drive. That ended up being a<br>
> gimmick that was dropped a few years later by all the major auto makers.<br>
> I had a 1963 Dodge Dart with push button drive. Not a great innovation,<br>
> really. IMHO, either is the dock in Unity.<br>
<br>
</div>Only because the shifter on the stalk and in the console were "more<br>
familiar" and not as strange. However, if you notice today's vehicles<br>
are slowly coming back to push button drive.<br>
<br>
There's been push-button AWD/4WD for some time now, and high end and<br>
even some lower end cars are coming with push-button or spinny-knob<br>
automatic transmissions.<br>
<br>
So really, if you're saying that Unity is the Push Button Automatic,<br>
well, then it will eventually become accepted.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>The reason for going to "push button drive" in automobiles has to do with the increasing cost reductions made possible by using electronic controls instead of mechanical linkages.<br>
Since the underlying systems are all monitored and controlled through integrated circuits it now just makes sense to adopt that control scheme for automatic transmissions.<br clear="all">Manual transmissions still require a mechanical linkage for gear changing. Any of the so called auto/manual trans setups is just an automatic transmission with an override on the automatic part.<br>
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