Study Driving » efficiency http://www.studydriving.com Your online resource for driving lessons, driving tips, driving safety and all things about automobiles Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 You Can Learn Better with a Stick Shift Car http://www.studydriving.com/basic-driving-techniques/you-can-learn-better-with-a-stick-shift-car/ http://www.studydriving.com/basic-driving-techniques/you-can-learn-better-with-a-stick-shift-car/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:25:02 +0000 Marcel http://www.studydriving.com/?p=213 When it comes to driving, you normally have the options to choose an automatic or manual transmission car. Of the two, automatic transmission cars are no challenge at all. All you have to do is put it to D (drive) and you are on your way. All you have to do from there is use the brakes or place it on P (park) when you are not mobile.

But if you really want to be a good driver, stick shift vehicles is the best way to go. They allow you to adjust accordingly on when to shift and when to determine if the engine is having a hard time. In short, professional drivers are certified better if they can handle these types of cars.

To some, especially the people who can afford luxury automatic cars, there are a lot of issues. To them, these types of cars are like toys since they get them to places at a more convenient fashion. But things to consider here include:

1. High Fuel Consumption
2. Larger Car Maintenance Costs
3. Improbable to use car in high flooded areas

You cannot control the level of gas you will use when you drive automatic cars. The engine does all the mixing as far as power is concerned and when that happens, fuel control is totally absent. So other than driving wrong, you are burning fuel wrong. Maintenance, you better be careful since repairing automatic transmission as well costs a fortune!

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The air-conditioning system if replaced with more advanced designs such as in the compressor which have lighter yet more efficient cooling capability also lowers weight considerably. High strength steel along with advanced adhesives is making thinner sheets of metals perform better as heavier and thicker traditional ones.
One of the heaviest parts of the car asides from the engine is the transmission and power train systems, could be moved to the engine compartment with the conversion of the throttle to a digital along with lighter alloy velocity joints would decrease weight more. All these changes could lower the weight of a car by more than 40 lbs. with a change of wheels from traditional steel ones to aluminum alloys adding 22 lbs to that figure amounting to a total savings of almost 60lbs. Now that’s a lot of weight shaved off a car and that would allow better, more efficient use of expensive fuel. Hybrids would also benefit from all these changes as well as regular cars.
The need for changes such as these is necessary as people want more and more savings in terms of fuel consumption and the ability to shift to hybrids. Experts just wish they had grown with the airline industry that has the best people to ask when it comes to weight to power ratios. With the price of oil at all time high’s the need for more efficient cars with less emissions is the best solution to a growing problem all of us have to face.

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