• Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know why the auto industry is so enthusiastic about weird new shifter designs, and I don’t know why the USDOT even entertains allowing them.

    Remember the guy who played Chekov in those Star Trek fanfics made by JJ Abrams? He ran himself over with his car because it had a weird confusing newfangled gear shift.

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      8 months ago

      2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee “e-shift”. Fix the next year due to “customer satisfaction“, not manslaughter.

      The NHTSA investigation ran for seven years and just closed a month ago! Wow.

      Kinda found nothing wrong. Some changes made, complaints and accidents reduced.

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        8 months ago

        What substances are automotive engineers exposed to in college that makes them design cars the way they do? Because I’m from the aviation industry and I FUCKING WANT SOME.