Un-intuitive Automatic Transmission Shifters

Bob_Luken
Bob_Luken Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 2019 in Non Cigar Related

Have any of you had to deal with these new designs? I have not had to yet with my vehicles but, I keep hearing about other folks problems, like taking it out of gear,...... at 60 mph,...  instead of turning down the volume like they intended.  

Chrysler Pacifica Dial


https://www.autotrader.com/auto-show/here-are-nine-weirdest-gear-shifters-car-industry-275653.xhtml

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  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why.....Just why?
  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    Why.....Just why?

    Not having a shift lever in the center console frees up lots of space that can be devoted to other groovy things.
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  • TX98Z28
    TX98Z28 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can’t bang gears like that...and paddle shifters while cool don’t count...sorry. Lol
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2019
    If a person doesn't learn after the first couple times, then they probably never will. 
    In the 70s, you could bump a floor shifter into neutral or worse, into reverse, whike you can turn the k n o b and have it go into neutral, you cannot go into reverse. Above certain speeds, the system won't allow the transmission to shift into reverse and will cause an "out if range" error.

    And you can out it back in drive and resume your driving.

    But I will agree the placement of it was stupid.

    Edit: dammit Ccom, k n o b is a thing.
    WTF is it blocked for? We aren't pre-schoolers. 
    I'm gonna put k n o b in my signature. 
    They can ban me for it. 
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    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • TX98Z28
    TX98Z28 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nothing like the pedal to the metal power shifting her and rowing through em! Also a great way to blow 2nd and 3rd and I’ve done it. Lol
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  • skydiverD
    skydiverD Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Patrickbrick said:
    I still drive with two feet.
    And only 1 eye 
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  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I propose we replace the word k n o b with **** whenever it comes up. **** creek. Shifting ****. ****-head. You get the drift.
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  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are just fuckingstupid. Grow up
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2019
    Stubble said:
    Captain_Call said:
    Hell no. Give me splitters or give me death
    Looks like math...**** that!
    Dump the 9 speed and got to a 13 with double overdrive.
    In my old service truck I started out with a 9 speed Road Ranger and then when that transmission had problems I swapped it out for a 13 speed. So much better.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Markwell
    Markwell Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll stick with the 5 speed. Then again, when push button came out they probably said the same thing. 
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    In the 70s, one of my buddies had a 63 Dodge with push button transmission.
    If you didn't get the park button all the way in, the damn thing would roll on you.
    Setting the park brake was pretty much required.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • First_Warrior
    First_Warrior Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We had a Dodge SW in 1968. I got to drive it when I was home on leave recovering from wounds.  V-8 engine and I could smoke the tires every time I punched the buttons. The back seat was big enough to roll around with my girlfriend. The good OLD days.
  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My Dad had a Chrysler Imperial.  The backseat was great.  I used to call it a motel room on wheels!

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