{"id":566451,"date":"2010-05-17T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984554616620976925.post-3882467256348713085"},"modified":"2010-05-17T03:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T07:28:33","slug":"the-d-drive-infinitely-variable-geared-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566451","title":{"rendered":"The D-Drive Infinitely Variable Geared Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This brain-bending invention could be the holy grail of transmission technology &#8211; it allows you to smoothly move through gear ratios from top gear all the way through neutral and into reverse without ever disengaging the engine. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, there&#8217;s no friction drive component, so the power is always transmitted through gear teeth &#8211; there&#8217;s never any slip or friction losses.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the D-Drive&#8217;s main difficulty is that it&#8217;s so damn hard to understand that people don&#8217;t really know what to do with it. <\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a close-up look, which will hopefully get a few people thinking. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"600\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F6zE__J0YIU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F6zE__J0YIU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/2984554616620976925-3882467256348713085?l=speedmarket.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brain-bending invention could be the holy grail of transmission technology &#8211; it allows you to smoothly move through gear ratios from top gear all the way through neutral and into reverse without ever disengaging the engine. Plus, there&#8217;s no friction drive component, so the power is always transmitted through gear teeth &#8211; there&#8217;s never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}