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.
My two cars are stick shift and column shift. Every once in a while, I do ‘air shifting’ on the column of the wrong vehicle, when I get in.
I have a Jag and Hubby has a Mercedes. I can’t find anything in the Mercedes when I drive it. Takes me a minute to acclimate. Lol
My Acura has a push button shifter.
If you open the door while it's in gear, it'll let you roll about 5 feet then it jams on the brake and puts it in park.
It also shifts to park if your push the button to shut it off, no matter what gear you're in.
Also if you put it in neutral and open the door, it goes into park. I'm not quite sure how the car wash guys keep it in neutral, but they've got it figured out. heh.
Finally, if you have brake hold on and are stopped, if you pop your seat belt off the brake stays engaged and it goes into park. I'm not sure why it does that. The brake hold is nice if you're at long traffic lights...you can take your foot off the brake and just the lightest touch on the accelerator disengages it.
Ah, a flappy paddle gearbox for the driver who wants to pretend he’s driving an F1 car.