Re: Thoughts on industrial design

On 4/28/2025 2:02 PM, Zen Cycle wrote:

On 4/27/2025 9:26 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/27/2025 2:32 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:47:23 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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He did dump the slushbox for an actual gearbox, which is nice.

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Yep.  I looked around for a stick shift model.  Except for my first
car, all have been stick shifts.  Driving an automatic makes me feel
like I'm the passenger instead of the driver.  With a stick shift, I'm
part of the machine.  If I live long enough to need a new car, it will
probably be another stick shift.

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I got in a conversation with a Tesla owner last week. He proudly showed me a video shot from his driver's seat showing the car self- driving from his garage to a coffee shop. The ultimate non-driving experience!
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I've never owned a car with automatic transmission. Of course, my current EV has only one fixed ratio reduction gear, so I've moved beyond playing with multiple ratios. Just step on the gas ... no, throttle ... no, accelerator, and it goes.

 Can you call it "stepping on the gas" in an EV?

It was a joke!  :-)
But we do use archaic terms. How often do you "fire up" your computer - as people once "fired up" steam engines?
How often do we express bodily fatigue as having "run out of steam"?
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- Frank Krygowski