Many newer vehicles are mostly computer controlled and have many factors that actuate a shift. Your older vehicles mainly work off vaccum. Low RPMs creates a higher vaccum than full throttle. So basicly, the transmision knows to stay in a lower gear at higher vaccum. Also some vehicles have a linkage from the pedal that tells the trans when you ';tromp down'; like to pass someone, it tells it to downshift.How does and automatic car change gears, how does it know to change?
Automatics use epicyclic gear sets consisting of 3 components:-
Sun wheel
Planetary gears
Annulus or ring gear
By locking any one of these components a different ratio is created and even reversed. This locking is done by hydraulic pressure applying force through brake bands and/or clutches. The pressure is made by a pump inside the transmission forcing trans fluid through a valve body where it is controlled and sent to the various locking components in order to shift gear.
Gear shifts are made according to engine speed and load which is determined by various sensors which can be mechanical, vacuum or electronically modulated or a combination of all 3.
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