Posted: 3/28/2005 9:17:00 AM EDT
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Remember the Turbo button on early PC clones? Did anyone actually turn the Turbo OFF? What about the Overdrive on some American cars? Does anyone drive with it OFF? Traction control? etc..... I hate useless buttons. What's the point? |
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Overdrive is your "4th" gear or "5th" gear or "6th" gear depending on the # of gears your tranny has. It's for cruising for max gas economy. I.e. The Ford AOD is a 4 speed automatic, and the Ford C6 is a 3 speed automatic. The difference between these 2 (besides internal stuff) is that the AOD is essentially a C6 with an OD band that allows for a 0.70:1 ratio in 4th "gear" for better fuel economy. Otherwise 3rd gear is 1.00:1 and that's no good for gas economy! Turn off overdrive when towing, climbing steep upgrades, or racing. I turn off traction control all the time. The Turbo button might be turned off if you're running an application that cannot stabilize with your clock speed (i.e. old DOS programs that run SUPER fast for some reason). |
Yea, when you needed to run an old software program on a computer, but the computer was already too fast/advanced for it. Pressing the turbo button would in essence "slow" the computer down, which would make it compatible for the old program. |
Um, actually I have TCS and Overdrive buttons on my truck. While I almost never turn off the TCS, I have done so before. and I turn off the Over drive often, mostly when towing something. |
Try this, it works for me. |
Geez... I have a fricken POWER button on my keyboard. I hit that once by accident and ripped it off the keyboard. |
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I need the traction control button on my car. Actually, it's not a button, it's in some damned menu thingy, but it's damned good it's there. If I couldn't turn traction control off, the car would be useless in the snow (and the rain sometimes) and would already have killed me trying to pull into traffic. The traction control isn't the nice kind that just hits the brakes on the back wheels. It's the evil kind that kills power. And it's WAAAAYYYY to sensitive and overreacts. I got stuck in the snow once. The pedal wasto the floor, and the damned car was sitting there idling! |