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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by Nullabillity on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:50AM (#12977380)
Solving good automatic transmission in isolation is basically solving general AI. And then you have the opposite problem of constantly trying to predict how the black box will behave.

Much better to have the driver (regardless of human or software) control both transmission and the other concerns.

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Re:Fewer than 3% of cars sold in the U.S. have manual transm... by ams6110 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:17PM (#12979895)
Automatics will never shift well until they can consider the road ahead. Upcoming curve, slope up or down, heavy traffic, etc. all affect a driver's decision about when to shift and which gear to select. So you basically need the sensors a self-driving car would have, and at that point, manual vs. automatic transmission is sort of irrelevant.
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