Looks interesting!

I think they already have.

Or at least, the setup in the Disco 3 with the auto box is probably capable of pretty much everything shown there - the only thing that comes to mind that isn't enabled by default is the "Vehicle position control" which would be doable between the autobox, ABS and fly-by-wire throttle. It already has the torque biasing by default along with lots of other funky stuff.

P.

On or around Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:03:50 +0000, "Paul S. Brown" enlightened us thusly:

I love the ideal of CVT - the basic mechanics of that go back 70+ years, mind, they fitted one to an Austin 12 (IIRC) in the 30s. Wasn't much good then, but materials science has advanced a bit - the latest one apparently has a cunning lubricant related to the stuff in a viscous diff, which transmits drive when under pressure (i.e. between the wheels and the driving/driven rotors) and is liquid otherwise.

The advantage in this CVT system (or IVT), I understand, is that it can provide top gear of up to 60mph per 1,000rpm for fuel economy. It's shown to be slightly better than manual boxes and about 10% better than conventional autos. There are no torque converters, it's all done by rollers on output discs. It's the angle between them that changes the output seamlessly. A completely new type of auto box. Did you look at the video?

On or around Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:26:25 -0000, "Bob Hobden" enlightened us thusly:

seen it before, from I think the same site. However, it's not a completely new idea, the basis of the idea dates to ages-ago, but this lot have a new slant on it and more to the point a new sort of lubricant/drive fluid.

I take it you saw