And to further extend the lunacy (and because I just did brakes on one such example, a 2019 Volvo XC40) these damn electro-moronic automatic transmission gear shifters. What is the problem with a normal lever/button mounted in one of the normal/expected places that you can move with your hand and not have to second-guess what actual gear it is in?
These stupid little knobs, buttons, or in the case of this Volvo, a little nub sticking out that barely moves. You HAVE to take your eyes off the road and your surroundings to look at the [overly busy, complicated, information overload] instrument cluster just to see what gear you've moved it into. And Park is this extra little button that lays strategically in a place where the driver can spill their morning Starbucks and render it useless. For a company that has championed "safety" for all these decades, I find this quite appalling. And if for some reason you do want an electric shifter, that's fine, you can still have that, and have it controlled with something that still works like a regular shifter... Volkswagen has been doing this with the DSGs since the DSGs came out! Feels like a perfectly normal shifter... but aside from the park pawl, it isn't shifting anything besides some electrons via the shift module contact strip.
