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Add a push button transmission to that list. They were a bad idea in the 1960s, and they're still a bad idea today.
by stephengillie 8y ago
Add a push button transmission to that list. They were a bad idea in the 1960s, and they're still a bad idea today.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoChrysler's trying it all over again with their "turn the dial" transmission control. One of the basic rules of interface design is that the larger the effect of the button on the system the bigger and more attention grabbing you make it (like in an industrial machine where you have a big red button that requires a lot of force to activate and makes an impressive sound when you hit it and a green one that behaves similarly). The push button shifter and knob shifter both violate that.
- amyjess 8y ago> Chrysler's trying it all over again with their "turn the dial" transmission control. ...which they stole from Jaguar. Oddly enough, Mercedes has gone to column shifters in the last few years, which have previously been associated with American trucks.
- userbinator 8y agoA lot of automatic transmissions in large trucks and buses still use pushbutton shifters.