From: ahk@chinet.com

Joseph D. Korman  wrote:
>On 5/7/2015 2:52 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>I'm reviving this dead thread to mention an opinion piece from March 2015
>>Railway Age that I just read.

>>The car being driven was a Mercedes-Benz ML350 SUV. The driver, Carol Brody,
>>had purchased it only a few weeks before. The automatic transmission shift
>>lever has an unusual pattern--Park, Neutral, Reverse or Drive.

>>The more common pattern is Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive

>>The commentator speculates that there's a possibility that she really
>>did intend to reverse off the grade crossing and got confused.
>>We'll never know.

>But in the configuration of the car, two clicks on the lever would have
>put her in reverse.  On the regular automatic shift, she'd be in neutral.

The second movement of the gearshift would have put the car in reverse
OR drive. As the commentator described it, pushing the gearshift in moves
the transmission from park to neutral, then from neutral, there's a choice of
reverse or drive. That's why he speculated that she may have intended to
shift into reverse and not drive.

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