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The adaptive transmission mapping is all internal to the transmission control unit. It adapts literally in "real time", it can adjust immediately to an aggressive throttle movement to change gears as appropriate. To me it acts like it is not an electronically controlled transmission at all, and I believe this is what MB was after when they designed the elctronic adaptation parameters.
I know I have driven some older BMW's with adaptive transmission, it tends to retain shift adaptations for quite some time before it figures out an appropriate "shift map" for the present driver, very irritating. However, if the kid borrows the Beemer for a night, and the next day the transmission is shifting way too late and way too hard, it ain't hard for daddy to figure out how Junior was driving it.
Gilly
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