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the careful choreography that turns engine chaos into the forward motion you take for granted
means The act of sending something from one place or person to another, or the mechanical assembly in a vehicle that transfers power from the engine to the wheels.
from From Latin transmittere, 'to send across' — built from trans- ('across') and mittere ('to send'), the same restless verb that gave us 'missile,' 'mission,' and 'message.' For centuries it simply meant passing something along: property, signals, disease. The car-part sense is a young upstart, arriving with the automobile age to name the gearbox that 'sends across' the engine's power to the wheels.
- gear count
- some cars now pack 10 forward gears
- oldest type
- manual gearboxes predate the steering wheel
- radio echo
- first TV transmissions still travel deep into space
- viral overlap
- diseases and signals share the same verb
- fluid life
- automatics run on pressurized hydraulic fluid
tremec t-56 — 6-speed manual transmission used in dodge viper, chevrolet corvette, and pontiac firebird since 1992
zf 8hp45 — 8-speed automatic transmission powering bmw, rolls-royce, and jeep vehicles since 2007
ford c6 — 3-speed automatic transmission in ford, lincoln, and mercury vehicles from 1966 to 1981