It does. Park is all the way left (or, as other have said already, just turn the engine off and it’ll automatically put itself in park) and revers is just one single click to the right. It's not nearly as difficult or unfriendly as this piece makes it seem. 

I have to think that eventually muscle memory would just take over. There are a million little things in life that we just “do”, without thinking about it.

I’ve had my Maverick for almost 2 years and I can assure you it’s fine; just different from what people are used to. Plus it does cool things, like automatically shifts to park when you turn off the ignition.

“What people think of as the South, or the middle of nowhere, is really just 30 miles outside of any major city”.

The deference given to kids today baffles me. I counted myself lucky to get a RIDE somewhere as a kid, never mind a car. Though I was eventually given my grandmother’s car when I got a job so they didn’t have to keep schlepping me back and forth to work. Doesn’t seem like high school kids have JOBS these days either.…

They are not in the business of making cars, they are in the business of making *money*. And trucks print money. Especially now that they don’t have to lose money on cars to be able to sell them without CAFE fines. Which was pretty much the only reason the Detroit three made cheap cars for decades.

The unfortunate truth is it isn’t that simple. As I read somewhere a while back, “What people think of as the South, or the middle of nowhere, is really just 30 miles outside of any major city”. I live squarely in northern Massachusetts and I worry every day that New Hampshire will go to Trump in 2024, just based on…

Cannot argue; read this just this morning:

The scope is a little off: By sending unrestricted checks to the states, that money can and will go into the pile of state funds that will go to voucher religious schools, thus sending federal taxpayer dollars directly to tax-free unaccountable religious “schools”. Instead of fixing that bridge, you’ll be paying to…

Vote. Vote like you’d like the opportunity to vote again in 2028.

Hey Ford: The reason no one is buying small, affordable EVs is because no one is making small, affordable EVs. You were so on the right track, but you lost faith.

AV Club migrated off Kinja today.  Jalopnik is now the final Kinja commenting platform.

HAHAHAHA

Never ceases to amaze how people can complain about being ticketed for things they do knowing full well they can get ticketed for.

Yeah instead of talking “tough” maybe he should use some of the $105 billion (3rd most of any state) it receives from the Federal Gov. to actually upgrade its ancient power grid.

“If you’re interfering with somebody who’s trying to get the power back up, you’re not speeding up the process of getting the power back on; you’re slowing that process down,”

“I was talking to a car company executive. Big guy. Tough guy. And he came to me. Tears in his eyes. Crying like a baby. Sir, he said. Sir please take away the electric. We’re trying to do gas. We like the gas. Gas is good. So the battery. Wind! And the military. Oh. The planes are gas. No electric for the planes. Can…

“If Electric is so good, how come people have such trouble with Battery? AA, AAA, C, bing bong bing, if Battery good, how come you have have to charge them, charge them, they charge too much for a battery. I went, I went to the store for Battery, and when I saw Price, I said, I said, I said ‘Price too much!’ Battery…

I’m sure these folks are familiar with the basic math of the fuel requirements. Required orbital velocity actually decreases with altitude. The amount of fuel required to boost into a higher orbit is a small fraction of what it takes to get it there in the first place.