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If it does, then the first time someone runs over someone elses dog all hell is gonna break loose. I don't think this will make it to the US for this reason. I know nothing about lawsuits in Japan, so this may not be a factor.īut when I read the article (bad slashdotter, BAD!) and came to the part that said 'there is no onboard object recognition, so there is nothing that is going to stop you from running over something in the parking space.' I thought, oooohhhh boy.
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In some places, such as Northern Ireland, newly qualified drivers are required to wear special plates on their cars to alert other drivers of their rookie status, further ensuring road safety. I believe the standards in some European countries (such as Germany, if I remember correctly) are just as strict. Nowadays the UK standards are even tougher, with two seperate stages, a theoretical test and a practical test, both of which must be passed to attain a driver's licence. For another, they have a whole handbook of information that they have to absorb, with details on everything from road signage, stopping distances, driving in hazardous conditions, etc - from what I saw, theoretical knowledge is barely tested in the US.Īlso, the most tricky manouvre tested in the US seems to be parking, whereas in the UK you also have to safely demonstrate emergency stopping, reversing around a corner, making a three-point turn (turning around the direction of your car in a confined area using forward and reverse gears), etc.
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But, when I got to the US, getting a licence over there was ridiculously easy by comparison.įor one thing, learners in the UK (and in most countries) learn in manual (ie, stick-shift) rather than automatic vehicles, quite the opposite of their US counterparts. At the time I went over, my driving instructor thought I had a fair way to go (and I did) before I could consider taking a driving test and getting my licence.
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I was learning how to drive in the UK when I went on an long summer holiday to Florida. I will, however, reinforce the grandparent posters point, albeit more directly. In my experience, female motorists tend to be more worried about their wing mirrors being clipped by passing vehicles, and more considerate about leaving adequate space for the drivers either side of them, and park their cars accordingly. It's one of the most elegant achievements of mechanical engineering and helped win the Prius the Society of Automotive Engineers award for Best Engineered Car of 2001. The count of moving parts is breathtakingly low. Looking at it in engineering terms, there are no clutches to wear out, no fluid couplings to leak, and no friction bands to go bad. Because rotation speed can be changed, and power is torque times rotational speed, there's a changeable power split.
Looking at it physically, because the gears are always engaged and always have the same number of teeth, there's a fixed torque split. Solve that and you've got a linear relationship. Set one unknown, the speed of the sun gear, and it's one (linear) equation in two unknowns. Looking at it mathematically, the planetary gear system is one linear equation in three unknowns (the speeds of the gears). A gear ratio of zero eliminates the need for a clutch. That ratio can be set to infinity when the car is running in pure electric mode, or to zero during warmup, the only time when the gas engine idles. Once that speed is set, there's a sort of gear ratio between the gas wheels and the engine. The magic is that the onboard computer, by rerouting electricity to/from the battery pack, can set the speed of the sun gear independently of what else the car is doing. The central ("sun") gear is permanently connected to the motor-generator that sits between the gas engine and the battery pack, and which serves as both the starter and the battery charger. The "planet" gears are on a carrier permanently connected to the gas engine. The outer ("ring") gear is permanently connected to the electric drive motor-generator and to the differential. The entire transmission consists of one constant-mesh planetary gear assembly. There's an explanation and a Flash animation at. The Prius CVT is much cleverer and simpler than the usual cone-shaped gear. Correct, there's no clutch and what the Prius does isn't what you think of as "shifting".