What is the point or the purpose?
Push button gear shifters…wth?
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What is the point or the purpose?
I'm convinced it is just another thing to break so they can sell more cars. Cars are pieces of crap these days and designed to only last for like 8 years.
My Dad had a 64 Dodge Dart with PBT.
I had a high school buddy whose old man had an old Chrysler (?) with push buttons for shifting. Thinking back on it, I don’t understand the way it worked.
There were no electronics used back then, but rather mechanical shifting.
There were no electronics used back then, but rather mechanical shifting.
Is that the choke to the left of the shift buttons? Wait, maybe it’s the parking brake.My Dad had a 64 Dodge Dart with PBT.
I rented a vehicle this pas week with one of these. Awkward, annoying and just a pain in the ass generally.
What is the point or the purpose?
What make/model is this?
I rented a Chrysler minivan because I had to be the bus driver for a business trip and there was a knob you turned to select the gear. I hated it.
Push button shifting was mostly a Dodge thing back in the 60's.
One of these bad boys is what my buddy’s old man had. It had a massive V8 and ran like a scalded dawg.
I’ve had GMC Terrains for almost 10 years and that’s what they have. Don’t even notice it after a week.I rented a vehicle this pas week with one of these. Awkward, annoying and just a pain in the ass generally.
What is the point or the purpose?
My grandma had the same car and might have been the same interior color. I think that was the only car I can remember and she died when I was 18.My Dad had a 64 Dodge Dart with PBT.
Drive a new GMC Yukon recently with them. Do not like. Do not want.
Keep that push button crap off my yard, bitches!
I rented a vehicle this pas week with one of these. Awkward, annoying and just a pain in the ass generally.
What is the point or the purpose?
Wife’s car has the buttons, mine does not. Always an adventure when switching from one car to the other. However, the push button sure came in handy when some crackhead tried to steal my car a couple years ago. He couldn’t figure out how to put the car in reverse but sure as hell had the turn signals and windshield wipers going by the time I chased him off.
1959 Dodge
We had one of these
It was very cool 😎
I was very young
We had one of these
It was very cool 😎
I was very young
You don’t see a three speed automatic tranny anymore. Or a floor switch to dim the lights. Or metal on the dashboard. Or vacuum wipers.1959 Dodge
We had one of these
It was very cool 😎
I was very young
My Palisade has a push button shifter. This being electronic instead of mechanical in nature frees up space, things aren't in the way of the shifter. It also frees up space under the shifter area for storage. Electronic components designed to last typically are very reliable.
It also adds additional built in safety functions when you think at a system level.
Example: If driving forward, do not allow the user to shift to park unless the following are met: brake is depressed and speed <.5 mph.
This can all be controlled with software.
It also adds additional built in safety functions when you think at a system level.
Example: If driving forward, do not allow the user to shift to park unless the following are met: brake is depressed and speed <.5 mph.
This can all be controlled with software.
i actually want to know the point or purpose of putting automatic shifters between the front seats. buicks in 90s had the shifter under steering and the nice sofa in front made driving with lady companions so much more comfortableI rented a vehicle this pas week with one of these. Awkward, annoying and just a pain in the ass generally.
What is the point or the purpose?
I had a loaner with the knob shifter. I nearly threw it into park trying to turn down the radio.
This is pretty much the reason(s). If the transmission is not mechanically shifted, why have an actual "analog" shifter?
I'd also ask whether the push buttoned vehicle has a CVT for a transmission - if so that may be a reason why an old school shifter setup is not needed.
Time, and technology, marches on. Another thing that is going the way of the dodo is a good ol' fashioned stick shifted manual. Those are getting exceedingly rare any more.
I believe they marketed it as “push button drive “.1959 Dodge
We had one of these
It was very cool 😎
I was very young
My dodge has paddle shifters but they're more for idiots like me to have fun with and not mess the car up too badly
Push buttons, oddly gated automatics, column shifting automatics, traditional center shifting automatics, paddle shifters....I've had them all. I will always have at least one manual in my garage though. Right now it's my Taco.
Yep. Nissan's CVT troubles I believe killed the brand. Just...awful.
It’s to clear up space in the center console so us Americans can fit our big ass Stanley cups in the cup holders and have wireless charging for phones and giant compartments for our family size bag of chips
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