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Automatic vs. Manual Transmission 200

posted by  Don Foster on  Tue Mar 18 02:07 CST 2003
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"Does the wasted heat contribute to global warming?"

It certainly does not contribute to global cooling.

However, you must view this in context. ALL the energy that makes it to the rear wheels to drive the car eventually becomes heat from frictional losses -- noise, air friction, mechanical friction, and more importantly, friction at the brakes. ALL energy in the fuel burned in the engine -- every femtoWatt -- eventually becomes heat radiated into space to increase the temperature of the universe.

Entropy rules!!!

"Automatic transmission users are anti-environment..."

Not necessarily. They tend to spin their tires less.

A car with a standard tranny may be capable of better fuel efficiency, but that does not mean that the driver is capable of better fuel efficiency. (Hell, I remember being young and stupid once. I'm no longer young.)

"I knew there was some reason not to be shiftless."

That requires a shift in thinking, though it may have no bearing on how we clutch opportunities for improvement.
--
Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)






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