As the title says, I know that different shifts mean different gear sizes bein used, but I don’t understand why it makes you unable to start moving the car. I have been able to start a couple of cars on the 2nd shift as an experiment and I understand that I could damage the car and I do it just once for testing purposes but I don’t understand why I cannot do so on other shifts. To clarify, I mean start as in start moving the car and not just turning the car on. Thanks
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Imagine you have three balls on a flat surface. One weighs 10 lbs, one weighs 100 lbs, and one weighs 1000 lbs. Now, imagine trying to roll them. The first one would be very easy to get rolling, the second would be harder, but still possible, and the third one you can’t even budge because the amount of power or “torque” required to start the ball rolling is greater than the amount of power you can provide. Now imagine you could take the energy of the already rolling 10 lb ball, and use it to help you get the 100 lb ball rolling, and then you could take the energy from the 100 lb ball and use it to help you get the 1000 ball rolling. Well, now, you have enough energy, and once the 1000 ball is rolling, you can keep it rolling with less energy than you needed to get it rolling in the first place.
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