Key Components of Automatic Transmissions An automatic transmission does something that is simple to describe in words. It changes gears without direction from the driver, aside from choosing Drive, ...

A car’s transmission system is one of its most critical components, transferring engine power to the wheels while managing ...

How Does an Automatic Transmission Work? A modern automatic transmission uses one or more sets of epicyclic or planetary gears (consisting of a sun, planets, and a ring gear) to achieve many ...

One of the biggest automotive technological developments in the past 20 years is the dual-clutch gearbox, also known as the dual-clutch transmission (DCT). It’s been a performance game (and gear ...

It actually dates back to the 1930s when Adolphe Kégresse — a French combat engineer — first envisioned a clutchless, self-shifting gearbox. Sadly, his prototype never materialized.

How it actually works is that, by selecting the car's manual mode and shifting between the gears yourself, this overrides the automatic transmission's typical pattern of when to change gears. For ...