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2. Automated manual transmission - Wikipedia

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   Automated manual transmission. The automated manual transmission (AMT) is a type of transmission for motor vehicles. It is essentially a conventional manual transmission [1][2][3][4][5] equipped with automatic actuation to operate the clutch and/or shift gears. Many early versions of these transmissions that are semi-automatic in operation ...

3. Manual transmission - Wikipedia

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   Internals of a Getrag 282 manual transmission for a front-wheel-drive vehicle (Oldsmobile Cutlass) A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission system where gear changes ...

4. Shift-by-wire - Wikipedia

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   Shift-by-wire. Shift-by-wire is an automotive concept or system that employs electrical or electronic connections that replace the mechanical connection between the driver's gearshift mechanism and the transmission. Since becoming commercially available in 1996, shift-by-wire has been commonly used in automated manual transmission and has later ...

5. Sequential manual transmission - Wikipedia

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   Gear shift lever on a motorcycle (above the toe of the rider's boot) A sequential manual transmission is unsynchronized, and allows the driver to select either the next gear (e.g. shifting from first gear to second gear) or the previous gear (e.g., shifting from third gear to second gear), operated either via electronic paddle-shifters mounted behind the steering wheel or with a sequential ...

6. Transmission control unit - Wikipedia

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   Transmission control unit. A transmission control unit (TCU), also known as a transmission control module (TCM), or a gearbox control unit (GCU), is a type of automotive ECU that is used to control electronic automatic transmissions. Similar systems are used in conjunction with various semi-automatic transmissions, purely for clutch automation ...

7. Semi-automatic transmission - Wikipedia

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   Semi-automatic transmission. A semi-automatic transmission is a multiple-speed transmission where part of its operation is automated (typically the actuation of the clutch), but the driver's input is still required to launch the vehicle from a standstill and to manually change gears. Semi-automatic transmissions were almost exclusively used in ...

8. Preselector gearbox - Wikipedia

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   Gear selection lever on the steering column of a 1934 Daimler Fifteen. A preselector gearbox is a type of manual transmission mostly used on passenger cars and racing cars in the 1930s, in buses from 1940–1960 and in armoured vehicles from the 1930s to the 1970s. The defining characteristic of a preselector gearbox is that the gear shift ...

9. Electronic control unit - Wikipedia

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   An electronic control unit (ECU), also known as an electronic control module (ECM), is an embedded system in automotive electronics that controls one or more of the electrical systems or subsystems in a car or other motor vehicle. Modern vehicles have many ECUs, and these can include some or all of the following: engine control module (ECM ...