Whats the most confusing thing about cars?

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>>16611320
Automatic transmissions

>>16611320
what cock is that?

>>16611353
It's a fucking hen.

CAN network protocol

>>16611343
This. They decided to do away with all standards and went with a torque converter, clutchpack, planetary gear set, and hydraulic circuitry.

>>16611320
Fucking magnets man, like how do they work?

>>16611320
fluid and thermal dynamics of engines is pretty complex

spark timing and air fuel ratio keep trolling me

>>16611391
>>16611377
>do away with all standards
planetary gearsets are a well-understood and rather standard assembly in lots of mechanical things

Hydraulic circuits are not difficult to understand at all when you get to see the entire thing.
You're looking at only half of the circuit, OF FUCKING COURSE it's confusing.

>>16611391
this is pretty confusing, especially when you hit the volumetric limits of the engine at a given speed which is kind of counter-intuitive. Recognizing that a given charge of air actually has mass and must be moved in a certain timeframe to be combusted with fuel is rather deep thinking.

>>16611320
that you can buy a used one that runs for $500.
A used sofa costs that, but a car consists of a sofa and two chairs that moves on command! science!

>>16611435
Taking an ICE course and can confirm.

Combustion is incredibly complex when you have to factor in swirl, wall wetting, rich pockets, atomization, flame speed, choked flows and other fuckery when you're just trying to blow up fuel.

>>16611343
And the people who drive them.

>>16611320
how can women drive them?

>>16611548
Can't wait until we harness quantum mechanics and we'll have to deal with the intake charge being in all cylinders at once.

>>16611343
FPBP. Fuck automatic transmissions

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>>16611320
How does pozitraction work? Nobody knows. It just does.

And do the wax pellets in a thermostat return to their original shape when they cool off or do they all just mould together?

>>16611320
How can GM compete?

>>16611320
When you have all these different models with just letters and numbers for names instead of standard names. CX, CV, M2, 300C, E250, what the fuck. I only know what a handful of these are now. Someone says "what to you think of the LS E3.6 and I have no fucking idea what the fuck they are fucking talking about.