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Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven it (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de to c/cars@lemmy.world

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It sounds bizarre but I want to try it.

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

As a manual lover and daily driver this is nuts and pointless. Downshifting in a ice car doesn't do the same thing as applying the breaks and in fact as the driver if u think it is slowing the engine but it is applying the breaks instead that is dangerous.