transmission
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Toyota’s Future ‘Manual’ EVs Could Stall If You Mess Up
As it happens, not everyone emerges from the womb knowing how to drive a manual transmission, which, in most regular cars, involves pressing a clutch pedal and shifting the car into gear and then, as delicately as one can manage, easing up on the clutch quick but not too quick and giving the car a…
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Engineering Explained Breaks Down Koenigsegg’s New Engage Shift System Transmission
Koenigsegg’s CC850 and its auto-manual-magical transmission are kind of mind-blowing. We stared slack-jawed when we saw it at The Quail, and it still kind of scrambles our brains when we think about the actual technology that must be at work to make it function. Luckily, we have the internet’s very own Jason Fenske, aka EngineeringExplained…
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A Girl Likely Caught Gonorrhea From Swimming in a Hot Spring, Doctors Say
Doctors say they’ve documented an unusual case of gonorrhea in an 11-year-girl from Austria, one with no evidence of sexual transmission. As near as they can tell, the girl caught it from swimming in a communal hot spring while vacationing in Italy. Thankfully, the infection was successfully treated with antibiotics once discovered.
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Children Might Play a Bigger Role in COVID Transmission Than First Thought
Over the weekend, the World Health Organisation made an announcement you might have missed. It recommended children aged 12 years and older should wear masks, and that masks should be considered for those aged 6-11 years. The German Society for Virology went further, recommending masks be worn by all children attending school. This seems at…