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Originally Posted by solstice
A gate blocker would be terrible since it had to be in the target gate which is the earliest the system will know what gear the driver is shifting to. That would be like sticking an iron bar in between your spokes to emergency brake. To absorb the energy and momentum instantly would soon break something including the driver’s wrist.
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I can see where this is going... next you'll need 'shift-by-wire' so that the car can decide whether to accept your gear selection.
...and then you've basically got a DCT gearbox with an H-pattern selector rather than 2 paddles.
But seriously, as a driver who learned on a manual, I would actually prefer to have 'clutch-by-wire' and a 3rd pedal on DCT for reversing maneuvers and hill-starts.