Our history with transmissions is pretty bad. Just saying.
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@bky+1ov8MIAL Google GM 10 speed transmission lawsuits and you will find there are several class actions filed against GM for out JV developed transmission.
Albert seems unlikely, as others have pointed out he wasn't an Engineer or inventor. His son likely could have though, since he was a professor of Hydraulic engineering at Berkley.
Both could have likely deduced more components = more failure modes though.
I was right in the middle of the DPS6 debacle. The engineers warned management that this would not end well... and guess what... it was a mess. From 2012 to 2018 we had more calibration releases to try and fix that box. In its defense it returned great mileage but it was a clunky noisy click clackity racket box. We destroyed Focus and Fiesta names in the process. In 2014 we had some six speed auto prototypes but management said that engineers fixed all the issues with the DPS6.. Somebody was frosting a tu-d for sure. There were plenty of promotions after the launch and boy did they distance themselves from that stinker. Oh the humanity.
The FWD Taurus /Sable and Windstar transmissions were cost reduced to fail... They made wave spring and clutch pack changes every few months. Very few of them ever passed full durability at MPG.
Nothing was ever allowed to evolve into some reliable. Somebody new would always come along and change stuff up.
As a former transmission designer, just as soon as Ford buys an existing design, they start changing things, so interchangeability goes out the door. Seen it happen plenty of times.
Pretty sure the current FWD and RWD automatics were a JV design with GM. Can’t say I have heard of GM having many problems.
Complexity + cost reduction + transitioning to EV mentality = sketchy reliability on anything not EV. A very bad equation.
It seems the focus is on electric drives and not those expensive castings filled with complicated clutches, gears and splines. Sigh, looks like the entire industry is just in a harvest or coast mode with little serious effort dedicated to getting this stuff perfected. Other companies are having their share of misery too. I suspect for the same reason.
Wouldn't it be funny if H2 ends up being the mobility fuel of choice and these complicated drivelines are right back to being important...
Eistein was a theoretical physicist.
He couldn't design a paper bag.
Einstein wasn't a transmission expert.
We can't even get brackets right......
Funny how other companies in Europe, Asia, and US have figured it out without Einstein. Just sayin….