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Good design eliminates user error. Audi’s inclusion of a fail-safe is good design. FCA took the lazy, i.e. cheaper, way and clearly should have also included the same fail-safe measures.

If I had the power to do so, I would replace EVERY door you enter with one that goes the opposite direction just to see how you like it.

Again, I have never advocated against personal responsibility. That goes for the drivers AND the companies that make the cars.

Clearly it is confusing if this many people have complained about it, and FCA’s terrible design choice potentially cost Anton his life.

I have never implied that the people who own these cars shouldn’t know how to operate them.

So you’re angry about over-engineering, when that is exactly what has happened here.

No, this is FCA putting a pull-handle on the “Push” side of a door.

Not even close to the same concept here. When you drive a manual, the gear stick stays in the position relative to the gear you have selected.

If something so basic and fundamentally important as the gear selector is so confusing that people cannot figure it out, then I’d call that broken, regardless of whether or not it was actually malfunctioning.

1. The gear selector should stay in position relative to what gear is selected, just like it has for ages. So if park is the top position, then moving the gear selector to park should make it stay in the top most position and not return to the middle. This did not need ‘improved’. People are accustomed to a shifter…

People who buy an A8 probably have a chauffeur also.

No one should have to read instructions on how to put a car into park. If they have to have instructional material for that, someone failed. FCA fucked up.

And I despise their shifter. It’s heinously complicated when it need not be. Terrible design.

A vehicle shifter SHOULD NOT BE SO CONFUSING IT CAUSES ACCIDENTS.

Not giving enough feedback = broken. That’s my whole point. When it comes to something so fundamentally important to vehicle safety, the recall should NOT be voluntary.

Lol, NO.

Okay, good for you.

No. Send Cororate Execs to jail if there is deliberate negligence. And if not deliberate, then said Company should have to pay for rentals while they fix people’s cars.

If confusing =/= not broken, then I want nothing to do with said vehicle.