This is your reminder that the ‘park’ state of a transmission is just a small pawl that is pushed into one of the gears. On uneven surfaces and/or with sufficient force the pawl can simply slip off the gear (or just break) and allow the vehicle to roll.
With electronic parking brakes on modern cars, i wonder if they can’t be applied automagically after a few seconds of the vehicle being in park.
This is not an issue manual transmissions have, btw.
On some newer car the “park” state of your car will automatically engage parking brake. On others the parking brake will automatically engaged while the car is turned off.
All these bell and whistle is invented because blood are spilled. Kinda mean that people just cannot be trusted to be responsible.
I have a car (Toyota SUV) that does the automatic parking brake thing. There’s also a button to manually brake/unbrake them but I’ve not yet found a reason to use it.
This is your reminder that the ‘park’ state of a transmission is just a small pawl that is pushed into one of the gears. On uneven surfaces and/or with sufficient force the pawl can simply slip off the gear (or just break) and allow the vehicle to roll.
With electronic parking brakes on modern cars, i wonder if they can’t be applied automagically after a few seconds of the vehicle being in park.
This is not an issue manual transmissions have, btw.
On some newer car the “park” state of your car will automatically engage parking brake. On others the parking brake will automatically engaged while the car is turned off.
All these bell and whistle is invented because blood are spilled. Kinda mean that people just cannot be trusted to be responsible.
I have a car (Toyota SUV) that does the automatic parking brake thing. There’s also a button to manually brake/unbrake them but I’ve not yet found a reason to use it.