On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:40:04 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:45:53 -0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:01:18 -0700, rbowman wrote:

On 02/21/2020 08:04 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Including the worst car I have ever drive yeah even worse than a
Chrysler - a Pontiac hire car in Boston..

Yeah but did you ever drive a push button AT when Mopar was on that
kick?

The one I remember most was this one... the car also had a valve (tube)
radio...

http://www.armstrongsiddeleysa.org.au/preselector.htm

Reading the end part of that, not sure why we have this override thing on
autos.

Because you can **** the brakes in some situations.

I've used one ONCE, on a VERY steep very LONG downhill in the French alps
to avoid wearing out the brakes.

Its not for wearing out, its to stop them overheating with excessive use.

Which wears them out.

So why can't the system be intelligent enough to notice you're braking continuously and drop a gear tor two? It is supposed to be automatic after all.... if it can work out what gear to accelerate in, why not which gear to brake in too?