Ranking car gear shifter designsfrom @uncouver_

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There's only one way to do this right and I can't believe that manufacturers that should know better are still getting it wrong. It's amazing to see how far we've come just to put your car in and out of gear. I'm a fan of the good old fashioned console shifter like this one for the automatics. You might have a rotary dial. You might have something like GM is doing now, which I actually kind of don't mind this. It's not push better. Some of them are actually triggers that you pull. Nineteen nineties car worst got to thinking, what if we allowed people to shift their automatic transmission themselves? I think Chrysler made this popular with their auto stick function. There's a bunch of different ways you can do this. You can have paddle shifters, you can have buttons on the shifter itself. You can have buttons on the dashboard rank just move the stick back and forth. Chrysler and Mercedes use the side to side method. Move the stick left for a downshift and right for an upshift. I think this is probably the worst way to do it. It's not intuitive and it doesn't mimic like any action that would feel natural to somebody who's driven a manual transmission. Then there's the move the stick forward for upshift and down for backshift. I think this is also incorrect. It's surprising how many manufacturers are still doing it this way. If you drive a Porsche, it seems to depend on what car you have because on some models, it's forward to upshift and on some models, it's forward to downshift. But in my mind, there's only one right way to do it, and it's this way. It's the way that BMW does it. It's the moving forward away from your body to downshift, because that is what happens when you're slowing down. You're getting ready to enter a corner, slowing down, downshift, your body weight moves forward. Your body weight is moving forward and that feels natural. Anybody that says otherwise is just incorrect. There's no other way to do this right.