Technically speaking, most experts recommend leaving the car in 1st gear. It won’t stop a car from rolling if the brakes fail, but it might slow it down.
Well, I sure have, but yeah, that’s the part I was missing. Thanks.
Sent from my MotoE2(4G-LTE) using Tapatalk
Have they reported that it was a manual shift? They aren’t very common any more.
.
There was a recent recall on these jeeps. But they aren’t sure if Anton’s Jeep was part of the recall.
Some Jeep Grand Cherokee models were recalled earlier this year over a potential ‘rollaway’ risk, after drivers were injured when they thought they’d put the vehicle into park, it has emerged.
I think this is probably how they’ll handle it. There will still be some panicked meetings at Paramount today (if they didn’t meet yesterday). Aside from the dedication, they won’t make any change to the film, although the marketing may be retuned to be sensitive to his absence. They might introduce a replacement character in the following film or they could just leave out the navigator as a character.
Their big fear will be whether this cools the box office performance of the movie. (Yes, it might seem mercenary to talk about money when someone died, but it’s a major project involving thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars.)
Chekov is far too notable a character in the Star Trek oeuvre to be written out. They’ll replace him with a new actor, like they did with Dumbledore and other significant characters.
Heck, they’ve already replaced the entire TOS cast at least once.
Here’s a Youtube about the gear shift lever:
What a shame - a talented young actor, gone too soon. May he rest in peace.
I agree that the part is likely to be recast for any future ST movies.
If anything it would help it - Actor’s last film and all.
Look at The Dark Knight.
Why? Checkov wasn’t that loved. Walter Koenig and Anton Yelchen were popular, but Checkov was not even in the first season of TOS (including Space Seed which made STII a little awkward). You can give Chekov an off screen death in a fourth movie and replace him with Lt. Leslie (TOS Season 1 Helmsman) or with a whole new character unique to the new film series.
Speculation:
Imagine that the car catches you by surprise and knocks you down, with the rear bumper impacting your rib cage. Maybe it breaks a few of your ribs, and pins you from side-to-side (instead of from chest-to-back). a 3000-pound car and a 4-degree slope means you need 210 pounds of force to move the car, but you can’t get both arms pointed in the same direction because of how you’re pinned, and besides you’ve got a few broken ribs anyway. Now you asphyxiate and/or hemorrhage to death.
Not hard to envision lots of other fatal scenarios from which self-extrication is impossible. This is not a person pushing their car around in a level garage at 0.5 MPH under controlled conditions; it’s a surprise impact from a 3000-4000 pound object moving at several MPH, striking you at potentially awkward angles and likely resulting in immediate debilitating injuries and preventing you from breathing and/or seeking assistance before you expire.
And if the incline is not so steep the car’s movement will be very gradual and quite likely to catch someone off guard. It doesn’t take a lot of speed for all that mass to gain momentum and seriously injure a person. If you get pinned that’s very bad news.
Fiat-Chrysler to investigate crash that killed ‘Star Trek’ actor
His car was under recall; it sounds like the shift lever is not the usual “PRNDL” lever we’ve all come to know and love over the decades, and may be confusing people and causing a lot of crashes:
I predict a wrongful death lawsuit…
Another member of the 27 Club.
A description of the shift lever:
This sounds like an awful, counterintuitive design that would be far too easy to use incorrectly. There have been 41 rollaway accidents associated with it.
I would hate that shift lever. Do all the new vehicles have that joystick lever?
A mechanical lever is so much safer. You know exactly what gear it’s in.
That. Just. Sucks. After Simon Pegg, Yelchin was the best character in those films. Actually tied with Sulu (who was terrific on “Selfie”).
I suspect that’s the major topic of discussion at the Paramount meeting was “how does Marketing exploit Yelchin’s death without making it looking like we’re exploiting Yelchin’s death”.
Wow. So not only do you have to push-and-release, with no proprioceptive feedback to indicate it’s in park, you actually have to hold it there until the computer agrees to put it in park, and then visually check to verify that it’s in park.
This accident was very foreseeable. I’m blown away that this design made it to market.
On the news tonight they showed Yelchin’s driveway, and indeed it’s a pretty steep slope. Not only that, but the Jeep Grand Cherokee is damn near 5000 pounds. I’m surprised it didn’t do more damage to the gate.
No, it’s not the norm. Certainly not now. I’m amazed that the NTSB or whoever actually approved such a design. It isn’t dangerous just because it’s different than the norm, it’s just plain dangerous. You cannot use a momentary push/pull-type relay control as an automatic’s gear selector, you need the non-ambiguity of a one-to-one gear position to gear selection lever.
Most people aren’t even yet used to the ‘new-fangled’ push/pull 3-2-1 gear ‘gate’ selectors on automatics. Car manufacturers tried something similar back in the 50s with ‘push-button’ automatics. I believe they were eventually outlawed because they caused accidents too*!*
There’s a light-up. If it’s in Drive, a D or D3 lights up, if it’s in Park, a P lights up.
The news keeps calling it a design flaw. Sounds intentional.