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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Nobody should be accidentally shifting into reverse in an automatic car!
The shifter is designed to prevent it in every car I've driven: you don't need to press the button to move between drive and neutral. You just push the selector forward.
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Yep, I know it's not necessary. But in my car, when I push from 2 back to D, the shifter button makes a loud click noise that I hate. To be more stealth, I push the button in to get back into D or N. That's where the danger is in overshooting to R. Been doing this for 5 years, and yesterday was the first time it happened to me. Always super careful about it, but I was just too tired yesterday and probably shouldn't even have been driving...
Oh well, no damage done, but still curious as to whether electronic protection saved my car. I always thought hitting R while going at speed would be catastrophic, but it seems others have also done it without damage.
Cheers,