Jeep/Chrysler's New Gearshift Appears To Be Causing Accidents (roadandtrack.com)

bartle writes: The new gearshift design for the Jeep Grand Cherokee appears to be causing rollaway accidents: 121 crashes and 30 injuries so far. The gear shifter is designed to look and feel similar to a traditional automatic gear shift lever but it is meant to cycle through the gears rather than move directly to a certain gear. A driver who is used to placing their vehicle in park by pressing the shifter all the way forward may instead be setting it to neutral before exiting the vehicle. The NHTSA is investigating.

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Re:So what should we do?

[thechemic]

I bought a vehicle that can drive itself. The steering wheel and peddles looked identical to every other car I drove. One day, while using the self-driving feature in a vehicle that looked identically to every other vehicle, the car shifted right to avoid what it thought was a line in the road and it put me on a collision path with another vehicle. Had I not known the car was capable of this, it could have caused an accident. I spent 30 minutes reading the manual when I bought it; I anticipated that the vehicle would behave differently than other vehicles I had in the past, and I saved lives.

I think it's past your bed time. You have no clue what you're talking about, and you persist in being abrasive simply to feed your own arrogance. Please stop bullying me.