By Doug Demuro 05/07/ am. I’ve recently been driving around in a Ford Mustang GT that has a combination of two interesting features: a manual transmission and adaptive cruise control. You already know what a manual transmission is; if you don’t know what adaptive cruise control is, it’s a feature that uses radar to slow you down or speed you up based on the speed of traffic in front of you. · So what happens if you are in cruise control with a manual transmission and the vehicle can no longer maintain the desired speed in the current gear (like User Interaction Count: Yes, cruise control works on cars with manual transmissions. They put an additional sensors in so that if you knock the shift lever into neutral or you press the clutch before you turn the system off or you touch the brakes, the cruise control deactivates.
I have of late seen many Manual transmission cars offering cruise control. A simple question - If the vehicle electronics cannot change gears because it is a manual transmission, what sense does the cruise control make? If you have to change the gears to maintain the speed, then absolutely no point in having a cruise control in the first place. Answer (1 of 11): Yes. Saw my first manual shift electronic CC on a Honda, back in the late 70s, I believe. Mainly for freeway cruising. Also had a Chevrolet Master DeLuxe, straight six, with overdrive, that had a manual throttle as well as the one on the floor. The cruise control uses some of the same sensor inputs the transmission uses and can indeed affect the transmission and cruise control. If the transmission is slipping then the cruise control may not control the speed steady.
I love to travel! I spent a semester abroad in the Tuscany region of Florence, Italy when I was in college, and since then I have enjoyed some wonderful trips all around the world for both business and pleasure. When By Sarah-Jane Bedwel. Prior to , all vehicles were manual transmission. Transmissions are necessary to transfer engine power to either the driveshaft or axle halfshafts and propel the vehicle. Manual transmissions are categorized into two basic types: slidin. Manual transmissions allow a driver to manually shift gears to power a vehicle forward or backward. Unlike automatic transmissions that use fluid, vacuum and pressure to shift the gears, the driver selects the gear to be used and determines.
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