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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Strange, considering that I've never owned a car where you could shift to Park :-) And I'm having real trouble visualing how such an interlock would work.
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Apparently you are young. Back in 'the bad old days' before safety interlocks became legally mandatory on all power equipment, you could shift an A/T into any gear at will. Simple power machines like lawnmowers also had no safety interlocks at all.
That was before tort lawyers became a highly influential part of the fabric of American society, and before the days when a cup of hot coffee was seen as a ticket to a generous six figure court settlement. That was back in the days before social welfare, when being an educated driver meant not doing anything stupid,
because stupidity didn't pay.
IMHO, the bad old days weren't really so bad. Back then we didn't need have opportunistic idiots yearning to collect $$$ from the legal system for their own willful acts, and invoking ever more stringent government mandates to protect us from our own stupidity.
Old Mech said:
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If you make cars idiot proof then you will generate a greater population of even more idiotic people.
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Yes, that is true, and that is considered by some to be
progress.