On 10/03/2016 03:10 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: >> My new car goes in reverse when I put it in first gear but only on full-moon >> nights with the tank on reserve when the left light is blinking > > OT aside: When I went to take my current car (a manual) > for a test drive, I had to stop and ask the dealer how > to put it into reverse. > > Turns out the only difference between first and reverse > on that model is whether you lift up a little ring on the > shaft of the gear lever prior to engagement. > > Who came up with *that* brilliant piece of user interface > design I don't know. It seems specifically designed to > encourage velocity sign errors when starting off...
Yeah I'm not sure what's up with car engineers these days. The Chrysler transmission shifter that springs back to the center position is another one of those brain-dead things. There's no way to know if you've made it all the way into park without looking at the dash. Click it up and hold it to hit neutral, then reverse, then park. Then it springs back to center position. This contributed to the death of that Star Trek movie actor. He thought it was in park but it wasn't, and it rolled over him. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
