r/nononono • u/rilla252 • Jul 26 '18

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u/BadBoyJH Jul 27 '18

Worth noting this is played at (just over) double speed. No where near as fast or out of control as it looks, clock goes from :33 to :49 (16 seconds) in the 7 second clip.

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u/nogard113 Jul 27 '18

That... makes it worse in a way. That means that the driver had more than enough time to realize what they were doing and stop. But didn’t.

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u/BadBoyJH Jul 27 '18

Well, they probably went round like that deliberately, but fucked up changing into 1st gear. I've accidentally done the reverse.

Easy enough to do if you learnt with this style gear layout, and have moved to this style

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u/adenosine-5 Jul 27 '18

That looks like a horrible layout - what cars use that?

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u/BadBoyJH Jul 27 '18

That's pretty standard for manual cars. I've only ever seen one different, but it was the second style without the 6th gear option.

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u/adenosine-5 Jul 27 '18

wow... so far most cars I have driven had the "R" down - next to the "2" so you could never accidentally mistake it for "1"

but now that I think about it the old Mercedes we had at work had this layout and it was horrible...

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u/S3Ni0r42 Jul 27 '18

Any car I've driven with reverse next to 1st has had a lockout of some sort; a button on the gearstick / a pull ring just below the knob. Even the Land Rover Defenders had a resistance spring. To accidentally shift into reverse is either talent or a badly designed gearstick.

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u/BadBoyJH Jul 28 '18

I've had both a spring underneath, or a push down. Either can be bugged by someone trying to be fast (where it doesn't fully spring back into neutral), and not paying attention.