Try this on coloum shift.
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Blame the lawyers!!! It would be wonderful if judges could simply dismiss cases for someone being an idiot and turning that into money when they find an ambulance chaser willing to get his piece. Then manufacturers program it in to avoid suits. Essentially every stupid thing on a vehicle is due to some *** winning a case that no sensible form of justice should allow.
What really amazes me is that self drive variants haven't already been nixed. I guess the need for people to feel they should have a safer way to text while they drive brings more money in than manufactures think they will loose paying off law suites for people being injured by auto-drive not saving them while texting.
What really amazes me is that self drive variants haven't already been nixed. I guess the need for people to feel they should have a safer way to text while they drive brings more money in than manufactures think they will loose paying off law suites for people being injured by auto-drive not saving them while texting.
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I figure it protects me from less conscientious drivers who may not remember to put it in park. A pretty small inconvenience to prevent death and injuries.
Especially with the auto hold feature and auto start/stop, it can appear that the truck is in park when it's really not.
Driver can be sitting in the truck, no foot on the brake, engine is off, and think that it's in park. When you open that door and the truck shifts itself to park it could really save lives. For example, I pull up to my garage door and come to a full stop while I wait for the door to open. Say my kid comes to say hello, and I open the door. I think it's pretty great that the truck shifts itself into park instead of rolling forward.
Surprisingly there are a ton of times when people have injured themselves at drive-thrus when they drop their change and forget to put the car into park before getting out. A guy was killed recently. And then whatever car they're driving rolls out into traffic.
Especially with the auto hold feature and auto start/stop, it can appear that the truck is in park when it's really not.
Driver can be sitting in the truck, no foot on the brake, engine is off, and think that it's in park. When you open that door and the truck shifts itself to park it could really save lives. For example, I pull up to my garage door and come to a full stop while I wait for the door to open. Say my kid comes to say hello, and I open the door. I think it's pretty great that the truck shifts itself into park instead of rolling forward.
Surprisingly there are a ton of times when people have injured themselves at drive-thrus when they drop their change and forget to put the car into park before getting out. A guy was killed recently. And then whatever car they're driving rolls out into traffic.
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Automatic park
Originally Posted by imnuts;[url=tel:7033595
7033595[/url]]Not new, all trucks do it, column or console shifter. It will also shift to park if you shut the truck off in gear.
One reason for the “feature” is the actor who was crushed between his Jeep and a driveway gate when he left the engine running in gear and crossed in front of the car. The speculation was the monostable gear selector did not give a positive indication that the c a r was not in park. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/130860...-in-car-crash/
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You can maybe blame the rotary shifter for this. Chrysler had some people get killed by there own vehicles not putting them in park. For me personally we had two Ram trucks at work with rotary shifters mounted on the dash, my wife’s Chrysler 300c has the rotary shifter on the console. For what ever reason when backing the Ram trucks up, I would on occasion turn the **** the wrong way into drive from reverse instead of park. If you then tried to get out, it would slam it into park for you. With the 300c with the **** on the console I’m less likely to do that but I’ve seen my wife do it though.
So the rotary shifter is a bad idea and Ford and others use it also. It has nothing to do with column shifters but for safety reasons they did it for them also. Kind of similar reasons you have to have your foot on the brake to put it in drive, that one is on Audi.
So the rotary shifter is a bad idea and Ford and others use it also. It has nothing to do with column shifters but for safety reasons they did it for them also. Kind of similar reasons you have to have your foot on the brake to put it in drive, that one is on Audi.