Just_a_fan wrote:I wouldn't need to read it if you didn't post it!
Sure, lots of designs are old. You know why? Because quite often the adage of "if it isn't broken, don't fix" applies. Sure, things can be done better but why continually try to reinvent the wheel when the one we have does the job well enough in most cases?
There are other avenues to investigate - gearboxes of any sort in cars are probably living on borrowed time anyway. In-wheel electric motors don't necessarily need them, for example.
In wheel electric motors dont need gearboxes?
Hmmm where to start? Unsprung weight perhaps,(wheel motors), or perhaps the fact that the early EVs now going into production were originaly designed to have multi ratio gearboxes but those building them could not get the gearbox to last past 2000 miles.
A very long way to go development wise.
'If it aint broken dont fix it', is the lazy short sighted attitude of many comfortable wimpy people today. It is also now very expensive to change direction in production, because of automation and scale. We are sadly missing the hand made small scale development companies where most new ideas originated.
I have far more right to be bored to death by the modern attitude to progress.
No risk no incentive and little common sense. Bland shapes and bland colours.
F1 has to shake itself up and somehow find the budgets and drive to open up technology instead of leeching off it. Time is getting very short.