And be sure to have yer lawyer contact Larry(corvette440hp) after the accident...
Seriously, tho...the switch is really there to keep you from accidentally starting the car with it in gear. It happens...someone reaches in thru the window to crank it, and off she goes thru the garage door, into a car ahead/behind ya, or...worst case...down the street with no driver...
True story for ya...Happened several years ago at a shop I was at. Guy installs the trans in a Chev truck, pumps some fluid in it, reaches thru the window and cranks it up(at high idle), walks back around front, pumps some more fluid in it. Shifter was in REVERSE. Once there was enough fluid in it for the trans to engage,
off the drive-on rack it went, backwards, thru our overhead door(it was winter time). Smashes into another customer car in the parking lot. The impact from that slammed the shifter into drive...off she goes into the closed overhead door of the shop next to us...thru the door, and halfway thru the wall of the
next shop, two doors down. Tires spinnin, smoke rollin off of them, and no way to get to it to shut if off! Driver's door was crammed in the wall between the two shops, passenger door was locked. We wound up breaking the pass window out to get in the truck and shut the thing down.
The NSS had been bypassed on it...
Yeah, it was an accident, and the guy should have checked to make sure the shifter was in Park, but....
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