[HN Gopher] Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive (1947) [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ Oldsmobile Hydra-Matic Drive (1947) [pdf] Author : userbinator Score : 17 points Date : 2023-09-30 04:52 UTC (18 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.xr793.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.xr793.com) | bevenhall wrote: | The insanity of digging up stuff that has stored several | millennia of sunlight and releasing byproducts when used NOW | still staggers me | jareklupinski wrote: | i think that stuff is the only reason we have a chance to get | off this rock | | what other species out there could claim a millions-of-years | old energy store that has been conveniently brewing right | beneath their feet, just ripe to exploit when they finally have | the brain cells to bang together and make the spark? | | today we have better stuff to burn and imo we should move to | renewables anyway, but long tails and sins of our fathers... | spacecadet wrote: | In 2013 I purchase a 1968 Ford truck for a restoration project. | It had the original manual in the glove box, mind you this truck | was beyond beat, some how this survived... Its a glorious relic | of print design, so I kept it. | serf wrote: | the first 'real' automatic like they exist today -- was | eventually replaced by the PowerGlide, which yet again set a | whole bunch of standard practices in place. | | Beloved by hot-rodders everywhere for their ease of install and | ubiquity in the field. My father has one in his project right | now. | | He, being a product of marketing like this, proudly responds with | "No, Hydramatic!" when asked if his car has an automatic | transmission. Cracks me up every time I hear it. | study2australia wrote: | [flagged] | brookst wrote: | I love it that they felt the target audience wanted to understand | how it works, at least in broad strokes. Though I'm a little | disappointed that the value prop is "right hand can be in wheel, | left foot can be relaxed". If there's one thing I've learned from | Mad Men, it's that the right hand is free to hold a cigarette. | | And wow look at all the white men, and the poor women having to | deal with the complicated manual transmission and have her | husband explain the torque converter. | Loughla wrote: | I think it's less that they worried about whether or not people | wanted to know how it works, and more that they needed to know. | New fancy technology is generally poo-pooed by people. Why do | we need fancy auto anything when a stick and clutch worked for | years? Well, here's some fun graphics to explain! | virtualritz wrote: | If you ever wanted a visual version of "mansplaining" look no | further than to the images on page 6. | ghkbrew wrote: | TIL what the first line of "Greased Lightning" means. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-30 23:01 UTC)