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Since no one's mentioned it, another interesting incidence of this was when Anton Yelchin (who played Chekov in the newer Star Trek movies) died from mistakenly
by SilasX 4y ago
Since no one's mentioned it, another interesting incidence of this was when Anton Yelchin (who played Chekov in the newer Star Trek movies) died from mistakenly putting his Jeep into neutral when he thought he put it in park. Chrysler was using a new (and overclever) shifter design where you couldn't easily confirm by look or feel what gear it was in, and so was prone to being misidentified.
Yelchin death reporting https://filmindustry.network/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-dies-fatal-accident/31377 https://filmindustry.network/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-d...
Consumer Reports article about the issues behind the recall: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/fca-recalls-confusing-shifters-in-chrysler-dodge-jeep/ https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/fca-recalls-confu...
- buildsjets 4y agoI rented one of these Jeeps a few months before Anton Yelchin's death, and my first reaction that was that it was an accident waiting to happen, that I expected to see a rash of senior citizens driving though storefronts because of it, and that I would avoid parking near them in the future. One of the biggest issues is that not only does the gearshift lever not move to indicate the selected gear, but that the gearshift lever has multiple modes of operation - a short press would select reverse, but a long press would select drive.