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The reason seamless gearboxes are only seen in race series is that the mechanism that makes it seamless wears extremely fast and is typically changed after each race, something not feasible for mass consumption, but Ducati has been developing a special tab system that eliminates most of the friction wear on the mechanism, that will in turn give it longer life, just long enough for public consumption.
Frankly if they pull it off it will be the biggest advancement since the Desmodicci valvetrain.
I’d rather see something like the Koenigsegg LST (not sure it’d pass muster as it’s a multi-clutch system) rather than a system that you throw away after each use