Having an automatic car “creep” allows you to, for example, slowly back out a parking space with your foot on the brake rather than on the gas.
I thought once threads in GQ had ‘run their course’ there was some leeway into being IMHO? Or was it just using the word ‘gay’ like that?
I’ve never heard anything even remotely close to this.
You were denigrating “hill-holders” by calling them ‘gay’ thereby implying that something bad is ‘gay’ therefore being ‘gay’ is bad
Next time use ‘cisgender’ as in “‘Hill-holders’ are cisgender!” because according to another thread, that is not offensive in any way.
Yeah Hail Ants, it’s fine to criticize hill holder drivers, rape victims, and smokers, but you can’t use the G word around here. 16 years on the forum and you’re just now finding that out??
Apparently. 
I was gonna say ‘…they should come with a skirt you have to put on first’. Since when did this board officially bow to political correctness?! Whatever, nm. GQ is GQ…
Using “gay” as an insult and following it up by implying that being feminine is bad. Awesome. 
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I inherited my dad’s car – first thing I disabled was that damn auto-door-lock, the thing that locks the doors after you drive for ten seconds. I decide when my doors should lock. My car is not smart enough to make that choice for me (and I am not in the habit of ferrying small children around).
Disregard.
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My car doesn’t make a sound or display any warnings if the door is opened while the car is in D. If your car makes a sound, what does it sound like? I hope it’s a distinctive alarming sound so it’s not easily confused with the normal ‘bing’ of having your keys in the ignition.
Even if everyone in this thread is an excellent driver and never gets distracted, that doesn’t mean everyone is. I’m sure we’ve all seen distracted drivers or know people who have difficulty keeping track of things. This kind of safety feature would not only be useful for them, but also for the rest of us so we don’t get run over by their self-driving car.
The auto-creep can be useful in normal driving conditions and shouldn’t necessarily be removed, but the car can easily sense this dangerous condition and warn the driver when they open the door with the car in gear. They already have all the hardware in place for a warning bell when the door is opened. More advanced cars probably also have everything in place to disengage the transmission when the door is opened and there is no pressure on the pedals.
I’ve been looking at this since yesterday and I’m still baffled why anyone would do this. Are you in that much of a hurry to empty your mailbox? If I exit the car I have both feet on the ground, otherwise I’m not “exited”, I’m only half-in, half-out of the vehicle. It sounds terribly awkward and unbalanced even if nothing goes wrong.
Is it THAT difficult to park the car before leaving it?
I recognize 3 distinct alarms. There is the regular rhythmic chime for seatbelts and for keys left in the ignition; then there is a faster chime for leaving the headlights on while getting out of the car; if I open the door while not in Park, the same chime is just a continuous, unbroken tone. Sometimes I wish there was a temporary tone-override button.
It happened to me in the only automatic transmission car I ever owned. I was 100 yards from my house and my dogs, who were in the car, were barking. I stopped and turned toward the rear of the vehicle and chastised the dogs. I was wearing winter boots. While facing rearward, my foot came off the brake and I hit (slowly, but causing significant damage) a decorative boulder.
But that was all on me.
No, it’s not difficult and I’m sure 99.99999999% of the time drivers park they do it correctly. But over my 30+ years of driving, I’ve probably done it 2-3 times that I can remember. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
The last time it happened I got a call just as I was pulling up the mailbox. I stopped with my foot on the brake to answer the call and spaced about putting the car in park. When the call was over, I opened the door to go to the mailbox stand and put my left foot on the ground while my right foot was still on the brake. As I stood up to get out of the car, my foot came off the brake and the car began to move forward. I got the car stopped, but it would have been easy to slip and have my foot slip under the rear wheel. My car had no warning. The car just started moving.
I wonder if the people in this thread who can’t understand this don’t have a situation where they have to leave the car for a few seconds. In my neighborhood, we have to go to a mailbox stand to get the mail. Since I’m only out of the car for a few seconds, I leave it running. So in over 6000 times doing this, I forgot to put the car into park once.
Anyone watch Justified?
Dewey Crowe would hope outa his car, and it would drive a ways without him and he’d jump back in and shut it off. He did it a few times.
I think he meant damage to the vehicle.