[Gllug] Geforce2

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Jan 23 18:41:46 UTC 2002


On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2002, Tushar Joshi wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:34:53PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
>>On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2002, Tushar Joshi wrote:
>>>How exactly is a gearbox better than an automatic!? Apart from cramp in the
>>>left foot when changing from 1st to 2nd 300 times a second? 8o)
>>Automatic gearing for bicycles has never caught on, because there's a
>>certain increase in friction; for a given speed there's more than one
>>gear you might want to use depending on whether you're accelerating
>>hard, cruising, planning to increase speed slowly, or whatever; and
>>gear changes cause unpredictable fluctuations in the drive power.
>>I believe that motor cars suffer from all these issues too, but to a
>>lesser degree, which is what makes automatics a feasible alternative.
>feasible? or infeasible?

Feasible, which why I wrote feasible.

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