You think you hate EVs now? Wait until you see what Toyota is working on.

[dishdude]

I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1. This could possibly be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

Automakers can’t quit manual transmissions so they’re cramming fake stuff into EVs

Fake manual transmission is basically like playing a simulator.

www.theverge.com

 

[drtyler]

I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1. This could possibly be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

Automakers can’t quit manual transmissions so they’re cramming fake stuff into EVs

Fake manual transmission is basically like playing a simulator.

www.theverge.com

Hopefully the writer (Andrew Hawkins) got duped by something that floated around the office on April 1 and it just finally made it to print. Good grief, that's terrible.

 

[PF52]

I don't see Toyota's usual buyers wanting or needing this one bit. They sell, what, a million Camrys a year but how many of them are sticks? A half-dozen or so? They're probably all here on the forum.

 

[John105]

I had to check to make sure it wasn't April 1. This could possibly be the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

Automakers can’t quit manual transmissions so they’re cramming fake stuff into EVs

Fake manual transmission is basically like playing a simulator.

www.theverge.com

Apparently they've modeled the units and how they work, after studying what sr. management does in a corporate setting

 

[PimTac]

The added manufacturing costs of putting in fake shifters is not something Toyota would do or any automaker for that matter.

Little three wheel trikes for toddlers can get away from this kind of nonsense.

As for the fake noise, unfortunately that seems to be a trend. I can see it occurring on the outside to alert pedestrians but inside is a joke.

 

[loneryder]

All you need is a train horn.

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

I don't see Toyota's usual buyers wanting or needing this one bit. They sell, what, a million Camrys a year but how many of them are sticks? A half-dozen or so? They're probably all here on the forum.

Toyota is a scam.

 

[jeepman3071]

LOL if you do a money shift will it come up with "game over" on the info screen?

 

[JeffKeryk]

I don't get it. My friend's drop dead gorgeous BMW i8 plays fake engine sounds through the radio. She thinks it's stupid.

 

[MRC01]

 

[JavierH19]

Sadly it's not from april 1st.

 

[Kira]

The first second of that video shows the kid using a screwdriver!
Also shown are kids playing outside.
...just trying to make the agists feel good.

 

[Rmay635703]

The 1980 Comutavan came stock with a 3 speed clutch less manual and could travel low highway speeds on 48 volts

If we wanted to reduce material use and cost an actual manual transmission is needed on cheap underpowered EVs to get enough power, efficiency and speed

 

[UncleDave]

The first second of that video shows the kid using a screwdriver!

Pretty sure he's"installing" it....

 

[MRC01]

The first second of that video shows the kid using a screwdriver!
Also shown are kids playing outside.
...just trying to make the agists feel good.

And no bike helmets, or adults, in sight. The era of free range kids!

 

[ragtoplvr]

I can see the electric harleys with 1000 watt speakers to reproduce the potato potato sound of a harley. Blipping their volume control at stoplights. Give them a fake shifter too. Maybe they can face the forward so people will hear them coming.

Rod

 

[John105]

And no bike helmets, or adults, in sight. The era of free range kids!

I was thinking, when we were 8-14 in the neighborhood, we went into the woods, shoveled off a pond, and played ice hockey. When I got hit in the forehead by the puck, man did it hurt. But in 6th grade, it was a badge of honor. Today, everyone piles into the Escalade and mom takes them to the triple rink 12 miles away!

 

[PF52]

I think what they NEED, is a device in the car where the driver can enter messages, one letter at a time, to be communicated wirelessly to other drivers' devices. It can't possibly be distracting to the driver, not at all!

 

[Soft Cars]

Why doesn't Toyota just make an electric motor that turns a flywheel instead of driving the wheels directly? That way they can have a real gearbox and a real manual transmission.

 

[Rmay635703]

Why doesn't Toyota just make an electric motor that turns a flywheel instead of driving the wheels directly? That way they can have a real gearbox and a real manual transmission.

The motor they selected doesn’t need one

Nobody wants to make a cheap underpowered EV that could benefit from a 3 speed manual