[SystemSafety] Yet another supposedly-runaway car

Peter Bernard Ladkin ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Thu Mar 7 19:16:09 CET 2013


On 3/7/13 6:44 PM, michael.ellims at tesco.net wrote:
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> Peter wrote: “turn off the ignition" or "force it out of gear / force the automatic-shift lever into "Park".
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> NEVER put a moving vehicle with an automatic transmission into Park!!!! This will lock the rear wheels as P engages the transmission lock. At speed this will result in the vehicle spinning. This is also probably impossible as you would have to go though Reverse to get there which would do the same thing – the gearshift is called a PRNDL for a reason ;-)

Yes, well, I never did learn how to drive an automatic :-)

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
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