Manual mode is experiencing a technological renaissance across automotive and aerospace domains. Manufacturers are engineering systems that blend manual control with automatic functionality, from Ferrari's dual-clutch gearbox to Honda's restricted manual implementation, while spacecraft and drones gain new manual intervention capabilities.
·Ferrari's new gated manual transmission secretly operates as a dual-clutch automatic beneath the surface
·Honda Prelude prevents drivers from locking into simulated manual mode, enforcing automatic operation
·Porsche patents a hybrid gearbox that functions as both manual and automatic transmission
·An EV manual mode system will stall if the driver makes incorrect inputs, mirroring traditional stick-shift behavior
·DJI's latest drone firmware update introduces manual FPV flight mode for pilot control
drawn from Frieze, CarBuzz, European Space Agency, Top Speed · updated 8d ago