INSIDE A CAR GEARBOX
he gearbox is one of the building blocks of the modern car, and unsurprisingly it’s also one of the most complex bits of hardware inside any vehicle. Despite all of that, the principle stays simple. A car’s engine connects to its crankshaft, which rotates thousands of times per minute. That’s too fast for the wheels, so gears convert the power to speeds the wheels can handle. They use interlocking teeth, connecting a small, fast-moving cog to a larger gear with more teeth, and that larger cog rotates at a
