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Originally Posted by c63er
He does make one mistake. Autonomous cars are not the end of the manual. Innovation can make a transmission switchable between manual and automatic control of manual.
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True, but most timelines have widespread EV adoption as a nearer reality than ubiquitous fully autonomous vehicle use. And EV drivetrain designs are all converging on the use of a single speed transmission. So, by the time we have vehicles that drive us around, the EV will already be well on its way to obsoleting the ICE and the multispeed transmission (manual, DCT, planetary, CVT, and anything else) with it.