“I know, it doesn’t seem like there’s any possible way that a transmission system could be interesting enough that we’d dedicate an entire article (and video!) to it.”
That sounds uninformed. I remember when I first studied transmissions. The manual ones were so simple to understand and analyze. The first time I read how an automatic transmission worked, esp the terminology involved, I thought an astrophysicist came up with it after being too lazy to use a manual. How all the components and forces in one work were actually too complex to be modeled with early analysis methods per Yourdon in Modern Structured Analysis. So, I default that a new way of doing automated transmissions might be interesting from an engineering or modeling standpoint. :)
re Abacus
This seems pretty awesome. The video… once I got it working… showed quite an elegant design that whose operation appears deceptively simple. They did a good job. I wonder what the odds are that something like this could end up in cars.
“I know, it doesn’t seem like there’s any possible way that a transmission system could be interesting enough that we’d dedicate an entire article (and video!) to it.”
That sounds uninformed. I remember when I first studied transmissions. The manual ones were so simple to understand and analyze. The first time I read how an automatic transmission worked, esp the terminology involved, I thought an astrophysicist came up with it after being too lazy to use a manual. How all the components and forces in one work were actually too complex to be modeled with early analysis methods per Yourdon in Modern Structured Analysis. So, I default that a new way of doing automated transmissions might be interesting from an engineering or modeling standpoint. :)
re Abacus
This seems pretty awesome. The video… once I got it working… showed quite an elegant design that whose operation appears deceptively simple. They did a good job. I wonder what the odds are that something like this could end up in cars.