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Touché! It's interesting how early vehicles were very different in their controls, but seemed to mostly converge and stabilise for a few decades, before again d
by userbinator 3y ago
Touché! It's interesting how early vehicles were very different in their controls, but seemed to mostly converge and stabilise for a few decades, before again diverging and changing rapidly.
The Model T (Ford) had a throttle on the steering wheel and 3 pedals, but not the ones you'd expect today:
https://www.fordmodelt.net/images/ford-model-t-controls_small.jpg https://www.fordmodelt.net/images/ford-model-t-controls_smal...
- Animats 3y ago> but seemed to mostly converge and stabilise for a few decades Due to regulation. The US Congress mandated the PRNDSL quadrant for automatic transmissions. (GM had PNDSLR, and people kept shifting into reverse by accident.)
- Kon-Peki 3y agoCongress didn’t “mandate” it, they made it such that the federal government could only buy vehicles that used the PRND sequence for auto transmissions. If you don’t want any corporate welfare you can make your transmission shift in any order you feel like.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI drove stick for most of my early driving years, and they were all over the place.