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Originally Posted by dtrop
Besides a semi-minor cost difference, the manual gearbox is kind of an obsolete technology in the practical world.
I think it will exist for a long time, but I don't think it will be relevant 50 years from now.
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Fifty years from now it won't matter because no one will be driving. You'll climb into your electric pod, enter a destination and get out after it takes you there.
The only fossil fuel burning cars will be in museums and on race tracks where rich people who can afford fuel will be driving them.
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