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Automated manual transmissions are the future, until they get efficiencies of other designs to be competitive with manuals. In a big rig, the minuscule amount of energy it takes to perform the hydraulic functions is far surpassed by the precision of operation, especially when combined with gps and predicted future operations based on knowledge of altitude and traffic conditions looking over the next hill and through the next intersection beyond our line of sight.
Freeing the operator from those predictable and redundant motions and thinking mean more attention can be focused on anticipating those things that need analysis beyond the capabilities of a reactive system (sitiational awareness), transitioning to proactive operation, with virtiual elimination of collisions.
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