Yep! the pushbutton gearshift has gone to the absurd! A simple lever
still works best, even if it is only and electric switch with detents.
At the auction I had to drive some of those miserable goofy things. The
one pictured as lan drover, with the rotary switch was in something I
drove, but not a lan drover. MB is right there with the absurdity, but
at least theirs is somewhat easy to decipher.
But a multimillion$$$$$$$ lawsuit won't stop them from using stupid,
non-intuitive gagets in place of a gear shift. All the millions toada
had to pay out for the push and pray did not slow down the use of push
and pray.
THe "gear shift" is now in the hands of software developers, and not
engineers. Software developers love to make the use of the software
obscure, odd, weird, or oddball, so that you need a class to be able to
use a telephone. (as an example) It is not about functionality, but
about how to impress other software nerds with how obscure and weird I
made this. Look for more "gearshift" deaths, just like "Push and pray"
deaths.
The pushbutton gearshift of the 50s was workable, if unreliable. the
new pushbutton gearshifts are not workable, reliable or safe. BEWARE!
Buy a 123, 124 or 126, or 116, or 108-115 instead!
Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
June 28, 2016 at 12:03 PM
PRNDL is dead, long live PRNDL!
http://www.autonews.com/article/20160627/OEM11/306279980/array-of-levers-and-dials-complicates-a-once-simple-function
I would think that if I needed to read the manual just to figure out
how to
shift the transmission, I have just demonstrated that the car (or truck or
whatever) is too complex and a hazard to operate.
Competing for dash / console space with all the rest of the buttons and
dials? That statement alone should be a clue that there is a deeper
problem here.
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Max
Charleston SC
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