The '09 Clubman Owners Manual references "Kick-Down on pg. 41. It states that this procedure will increase your performance.

What is this and how do you "depress the accelerator pedal beyond the full-throttle resistance point"?

Thanks.

 

Basically, all that means is that if you press the throttle down past a certain point (i.e. "floor it" or darn close), the computer will realize that you're wanting maximum acceleration and will tell the automatic transmission to "kick down" to a lower gear.

 

Thanks. I never realized this had a "technical" name.

They should have just said "Floor It".

 

The transmission kick-down used to actually be a linkage that was attached to the throttle and transmission and signaled demand and triggered a downshift.

They probably still use the name because flooring it does the same thing the kick-down linkage did, even though it is no way related anymore.

Ever research where the term "debugging" comes from?

 

Ever research where the term "debugging" comes from?[/quote]


Do tell!

 

From Wiki...

 

Actually, "debugging" was used synonymously with "troubleshooting" before the Hopper incident (at least in aeronautics). In fact, the log entry that was made when Hopper's team discovered the dead moth said "first actual case of bug being found", implying that the term "bug" was already in use to describe computer problems, although in a figurative sense rather than a literal one.




Also, the heading in the photo is incorrect - the "Moth Incident" was in 1947, not 1945.

 

hmmm. interesting how some of the terms in our daily lives get started.