Yeah, all those E-shift things are a pain. Some are worse than others. Some the "shifter" moves, and some, they don't. Yet they "look" the same. Again, any time you have to watch an indicator on a display to know what gear your automatic transmission is in, instead of the ability to do it by feel, you've made the car worse.
The new F-trucks with the column shifter are a trip... they look and almost move like a real column shifter, but they are fake. And if you shut the engine off with it not in Park, it magically moves itself up into Park on its own. It's a trip.
Ever look inside a police package car like the last of the Taurus, or the Explorer or Durango or Charger? You know what they DON'T have? Those idiotic e-shifters. They have a good ol' fashioned mechanical column mounted shifter. Because when you need to slam that puppy into Park and bang it off that park pawl like you didn't pay for it because you didn't, in order to jump out and chase a perp, instead of the car's computers trying to decide if you indeed did come to a complete stop, the VSS signal is at 0 and has remained at 0 for several milliseconds, your foot is still on the brake pedal, the sunvisor position sensor feedback is as expected, the engine is at idle speed, and THEN the servo will place the transmission in Park.
