The end of the manual transmission is near?

Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by distortedsignal on Thursday August 25, 2022 @02:51AM (#32590447)

Could you point me to the car manufacturer that puts explosive charges in their cars? Asking for a friend... who is myself.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by adhesive_wombat on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:09AM (#32590551)

Airbags and seatbelt pre-tensioners have "explosives" in them (they convert very rapidly into gas, but I'm not sure all of them always meet the usual standards of explosives).

The defective Tanaka airbags used ammonium nitrate, of Oklahoma City Bombing and Beirut port fame.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by rkangel on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:56AM (#32593783)

The Mazda MX-5 bonnet system:

https://owners-manual.mazda.com/gen/en/mx-5/mx-5_8fl9ee16j/c...

They wanted to keep the profile of the car low which didn't allow for the space normally needed, so they provide it 'on demand' in case of impact. Unfortunately for a friend of mine who is an owner, that turned a fairly minor collision with an object into a several thousand pound repair as the system shears the bonnet mounts and deforms the bonnet.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by ZeroGravitas on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:54AM (#32590869)

This is how airbags work as well, so everyone.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by splitbrain on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:06AM (#32590538)

All of them. It's called an airbag.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by jacquesm on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:57AM (#32591282)

Seatbelt tensioners too.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by tomashubelbauer on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:06AM (#32590533)

Don't all airbags deploy using electronically set-off explosives?

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