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Old 04-29-2010, 09:43 PM   #5 (permalink)
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...I'd like to see a true 6-speed mechanical gear box that automatically "shifted" between gears using hydraulics and simultaneously used a ferro-fluid (electromagnetic) "clutch"--both under computer control, ie: an automatic gear box!

...no 'planetary' sun gears or 'clutching' "bands" for me!

...I want solid "metal-on-metal" gears and 100% solid electro-fluid-mechanical "torque" lockup!

P.S.--Corvette already uses ferro-fluid viscus coupling for variable, while-driving, control of shock absorber response.
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