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Originally Posted by Red370
I dont think when I downshift, its muscle memory, clutch in, blip, release, that simple. I dont feel that I need a computer to blip the throttle for me and I think alot of people in the automotive world feel the same way. Cool feature? sure, necessary for people that have been driving manual transmissions their whole life without it? definitely not. This is why copycats havent emerged, its not imperative to have.
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Or because companies view the manual as "end of life" and feel they do not need to invest in new technology and are moving forward with trying to get better automatics. I could bet anything that if SRM was first put into a Porsche (manual) that companies would be scrambling like mad to copy it.
Why do I say that? Because if a company like Porsche views the need to push technology in manual farther then others will follow, but Porsche and others are working on double clutch and other automatic technologies.