For true, it's a continual frustration to transmission/product design engineers that US car buyers are so numbnuts dumb they require a CVT transmission to be programmed to "shift" and thus be less efficient and less economical than if it were allowed to be pure CVT.
Raymond Loewy, the father of modern industrial design understood when he said, "Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable - the adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting… "
jack vines
