Manual vs Automatic Transmission: Which Is Easier to Learn?

Fixed it for you!

 

At some point people are going to try and build a transmission that does not have gears to shift. It would be a row or planetary couplings or interlocks that add their strength against the needs of the truck up or down. I think once such a box is on a truck, you might have a situation where you can have a engine stay at one speed or extremely close to it boosting fuel mileage and introducing a new concept of hours until empty (Or in our case, days until empty) instead of miles to gallon.

Freightliner as described by a poster thinking a range of 7 mph before a computer takes action, I am already at around one or two mph before I speed up or slow down in some way to prevent the truck from losing it's balance against the forces of gravity on the way down versus the need to keep the brakes cool and ready for that one time you might need them. Some of those bigger hills out there, you might discover it's very difficult to get her stopped prior to losing the brakes to thermal overload or air exhaustion.

Freightliner will see a improvement if they can tune to 1 or 2 mph instead of being sloppy and loose at 7.

 

Automatic transmission is too difficult to learn.

 

Automakers haven't even got shifting figured out for cars/light trucks yet. I've hated almost every single auto I've ever had in a light vehicle (excluding the 4L60E).

 

RIGHT?!? .... exactly what " i " thought~!! (guess we don't belong here, LoL!)

 

I tried a few and found them too complicated. For cars. One in particular annoyed me, up and down and up again almost as if it had no gears. (It didnt...) If you wanted a good strong auto you had to go back to the muscle car era. Like the early 70's I remember a old C4 on my Torino GT that would not quit and was capable of accepting a 2nd gear downshift at 100 which pushed the 351 to around 4900ish. Right about high horse and close to red line. Manuals are way better.

 

I'm still trying to figure out if it's easier to walk to the store or run a marathon.

 

Try both, and see what fits your needs~!!!! Pull tanks, flats, HH in an auto, there's your answer.

ps: Do neither; just call Amazon or Wal-Mart, they deliver! (mostly thanks to us, I might add..)

 

You obviously don't pay for your clutch....