{"id":135314,"date":"2022-02-07T11:43:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/its-official-no-more-stick-shifts-for-mercedes-benz"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:43:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:43:59","slug":"its-official-no-more-stick-shifts-for-mercedes-benz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/its-official-no-more-stick-shifts-for-mercedes-benz","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official, No More Stick Shifts for Mercedes-Benz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-no-more-stick-shifts-for-mercedes-benz.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using an automatically-operated clutch.<\/p>\n<p>New patent filings from Ford outline a design for a new type of manual box that only uses hand inputs and doesn\u2019t require a clutch pedal to shift, a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/44163\/ford-patents-manual-transmission-that-doesnt-need-a-clutch-pedal\">from *The Drive<\/a>* reveals.<\/p>\n<p>With its new design, Ford aims to remove some of the negative associations drivers have with manual transmission vehicles, which has led some big automakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/its-official-no-more-stick-shifts-for-mercedes-benz\">such as Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, to announce they will stop producing stick shift cars. ## An easier way to shift gears.<\/p>\n<p>The patent, for a manual transmission with [an] electric clutch\\.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ford\u2019s new patent filings show a new type of manual box design that only uses hand inputs and doesn\u2019t require a clutch pedal to shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using an automatically-operated clutch. New patent filings from Ford outline a design for a new type of manual box that only uses hand inputs and doesn\u2019t require a clutch pedal to shift, a report from *The Drive* reveals. With its new design, Ford aims to remove some of the negative associations drivers have with manual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}