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Fumesucker

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4. The computer just brought your car to a dead stop in the middle of the road

Reply to bluedigger (Original post)

Thu Mar 17, 2016, 11:19 PM

Mar 2016

And your problem is restarting the engine?

What's wrong with this picture?

Also, given the development of mechanical actuators in the last hundred years having the computer disengage the clutch is hardly rocket surgery.

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Auto Emergency Braking Could Be Final Nail in Coffin for Manual Transmissions [View all] bluedigger Mar 2016 OP

If it can step on the brake, why can't it step on the clutch? Wilms Mar 2016 #1

Was my thought too tk2kewl Mar 2016 #2

I poked around. Wilms Mar 2016 #3

The computer just brought your car to a dead stop in the middle of the road Fumesucker Mar 2016 #4