Gee . . . “D” for Drive . . . and “R” for Race. How hard can it be?
Doesn’t anyone actually read an owner’s manual any more?
This why the push for self-drive cars.
Gimmie an old stick shift and I’ll be fine.
Brain Power should always be greater than horsepower when purchasing a modern vehicle.
They have had push button transmission before. I forgot who had them in the 50s and 60s but they had similar problems.
Maybe they need to do something like they do with tractor seats where if they are unweighted it shuts off the engine. Maybe they could have one where if it is unweighted or not in park?
I’ll keep my manual 5 speed. It’s the best anti-theft device there is.
My Acura has the shifter on the console, Mercedes has it in the steering wheel. After driving the Mercedes for a while then getting in the Acura I turn on the wipers trying to shift, duh.
Test drive before you buy? Salesman goes along to answer questions, shows how things work?
Chrysler Corp had push button auto transmissions in the early 60s.
Ii somehow got on a freebee list and got free subscriptions to Car & Driver and Motor Trend. I had not really kept up with newer cars since I can no longer afford them.
One thing which surprised me is newer cars will perform better with auto transmissions than manual. For that reason I see no real reason for the standard ones anymore.
Another thing is how many gears the automatics have. Most of them are at leas 6 and some are as many as 10. Hard to believe the old powerglides got by just fine with 2.
Also horsepower especially considering how small the engines are, has gotten really high.
Are these the infamous “paddle-shifters” I’ve heard about but never seen?
Automatics SUCK. If everyone learned to drive stick shifts, accidents and other mishaps would decline significantly.
SB ‘P D N R’ not ‘P R N D’..
I thought maybe they’d changed the gear letters to cursive but I see it isn’t so.
I can understand a gearshift so poorly designed that you might not know what gear you are in, but if you can’t tell whether the car is running or not, you probably shouldn’t be driving.
” drivers have exited the vehicles with the engines running and while they are still in gear “
My friends old three speed on the column pickup confused me..
Does anyone remember the push button shifter on the dash of the 1958 Dodge? Nothing intuitive about it. If you wanted to shift for any reason, you had to take your eyes off the road and focus on the buttons on the dash.
Just drove my bro in laws Grand Cherokee Summit. The shifter and 4WD selector is very weird. Doubt it will go anywhere my old fashioned Wrangler will.