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Originally Posted by mechman600
However....I see a problem for us folks with automatic transmissions. Having a larger throttle angle is going to make the transmission quicker to kick down to a lower gear. Maybe steady cruising in high gear will be impossible because the tranny will keep kicking down. Our electronicky cars don't have kickdown linkages to adjust either. Maybe this doesn't matter, who knows.
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I have found this to be the case. Last weekend I took a road trip and noticed the tranny would downshift going up hill, easier than I thought it should. I did not try it with the cruise control; forgot completely. Before I started driving mostly with the right foot only, I noticed the tranny would drive with load better on cruise than it would without. OATs were around 90*, so the WAI was probably at 120*.