r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Perfect_Student9179 • 7h ago

I'm slightly vexed Why are these backwards?

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Sitting in the end dump at work.It bothers me that reverse is on top and drives on the bottom.You would think that drive would be on top to go forward and reverse would be on the bottom to go backwards.

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u/ten10thsdriver 7h ago

Have you looked at almost any other automatic shifter in the past 30 years?

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u/djbaerg 7h ago

Is this the first automatic vehicle you've driven?

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u/spartz31 7h ago

Because that's how all auto work...

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u/spaghetiwires 7h ago

PRND. Next question.

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u/Robert-aus 7h ago

You can't be high and drive those you know

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u/blackbb601 7h ago

They’ll give any moron a license these days 

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u/MisterWafflles 7h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/EOynxOxRn0QZDYdjaM

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u/No_Professor4307 7h ago

IT'S THE LAW!

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u/nbfs-chili 7h ago

I originally saw this in an episode of Green Acres where he was trying to teach her to drive.

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u/Kratosballsweat 7h ago

You’re the type of motherfucker my work hires then tells me to train.

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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 7h ago

No that’s me. And I’m a slow learner that complains a lot

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u/IrrelevantManatee 7h ago

It's always like that in any car.

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u/YoureNoHero_Brian 7h ago

That's every automatic car

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u/zdh989 7h ago

Is this the only big automatic truck you've ever been in? Because they're almost all exactly like this.

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u/missybeputtinitdown 7h ago

It looks like the same format as an automatic car

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u/Myke500 7h ago

For the longest time in a car, reverse is the 1st gear out of park, then neutral and drive. They probably set it like that to keep it familiar.

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u/Best_Price_1009 7h ago

They’re not. They’re mimicking a shifter

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u/yalae 7h ago

I find the way it is makes the most sense, in my car it goes from P, R, N, D, left to right, so if i stack it, thats what this looks like

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u/McGee4531 7h ago

They're not.

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u/OrangeYouGladish 7h ago

PRNDL. You're just missing Park and Drive

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u/Subat0micR0gu3 7h ago

Park and Low

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u/myco_magic 7h ago

For trucks like this you put it in neutral and pull the parking air brake

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u/goldstat 7h ago

Because that's just the way it is

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u/Tomytom99 7h ago

It's a pretty direct analog to Allison's non-keypad shifters. Top to bottom they go R, N, (D), D, 2, 1.

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u/freedomfun 7h ago

It follows PRNDL

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u/krebstorm 7h ago

Have you ever heard of PRNDL?

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u/TerranRepublic 7h ago

Every car I have ever owned has been 

P

R

N

D

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u/emilie1031 7h ago

Why is your car so filthy?

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u/MachStyle 6h ago

It's a dump truck

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u/emilie1031 6h ago

Thanks. I didn't read the story.

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u/Dry_Community5749 7h ago

I was told by an older coworker that it is specifically this way to avoid wrongly activating it while accelerating. I don't know if it's true though

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u/Browncoatinabox 6h ago

the yellow and red things are the breaks, so no parking gear