Simply put, everyone has transmission problems, but not everyone has viable strategies for solving them.

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Frenchman Peterhansel, whose BMW was delayed by transmission problems on Wednesday, passed 11 cars to finish the Antofagasta to Iquique run ahead of Sainz, with Wednesday winner, American Mark Miller, third.

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After stopping with transmission problems in the second session, Hamilton's team-mate Heikki Kovalainen qualified only 13th - and he was demoted a further five places when it emerged McLaren would have to change his gearbox.

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Since 1996, the U.S. has required each vehicle to have an onboard diagnostic computer to monitor everything from engine to transmission sensors to look for emissions-related problems.

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As is to be expected, ordinary digital transmission is nowhere near robust enough to cope with the problems experienced by a mobile receiver, which can suffer from all sorts of doppler-shift effects and multipath radio interference as it moves around the place.

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If you look at middle term, in fact, we have exactly the same type of problems, which is we are entering the new period for Internet, data transmission, services, the multi-screens, connected TV.

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