[continued from previous message]

may have something to do with the difference in fuel prices as manual cars
are (or used to be) more economical to drive, but a side effect is that this also results in driving license exemptions -- when you have learned to drive with an automatic you are not allowed to drive a manual car, in some
countries for a few years, in some you even have to pass a separate exam.

Learning to drive with a manual car qualifies you for both, and this
presently creates a conundrum for driving schools: in order to teach someone
to drive with a manual car, they are effectively legally required to use an
ICE vehicle as EVs tend to be automatic - until now.

If Toyota's "fake transmission" is realistic enough to mimic ICE behaviour
to be ratified as a viable alternative, it could offer an EV stopgap until manual vehicles are rare enough for the demand to disappear.

[From that perspective, it's not a game or gadget, but a useful
simulator.]

[Martin Ward responds:

That's an ingenious example that I hadn't thought of!
It would make for a pretty expensive learner car. MW]

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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:38:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Mark Brader <msb@Vex.Net>
Subject: Re: Data on 267,000 Sarnia patients going back 3 decades
among cyberattack thefts at 5 Ontario hospitals Digest (RISKS-33.93)

New update: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/anykey-1.7031544

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:11:11 -0800
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