I particularly like the autobrake when drivers door's open.

[siteguru]

Is that the standard foot rest? (Maybe it's the photo angle but it doesn't really look like the one in my car).

 

[tsedge]

Is that the standard foot rest? (Maybe it's the photo angle but it doesn't really look like the one in my car).

Might vary with market. The EU one seems the same as ours.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

A slight alteration to Ian's solution. Have a piece of plywood cut and shaped to fit snugly in the footwell with the angle attached to that. Removable for other drivers and should drop back in position when you need it. It could be sort of L shaped, the mass of it at the rear leaving the mat clear for your right foot to keep some grip and retain the correct height.

 

[Rolfe]

Is that the standard foot rest? (Maybe it's the photo angle but it doesn't really look like the one in my car).

You're right, it does look different. I can't think why they'd have a different one for Australia though.

 

[DaevM]

Meanwhile, back on track....
I've been thinking about this and willing to blame anything but myself....
I've driven many automatics over the years and never done this before.
I reckon it's the transition to little twiddly dial for gears and little pokey button for handbrake. I've had 43 years or so of gear levers and handbrakes ( and on/off key!!) to ensure car going nowhere when I get out. Mostly big clunky things confirming it ain't going nowhere. Once pulled the handbrake lever clean off in a beetle!! ?
The slightest distraction and I messed up. Thank MG for thinking about that, inadvertently or not. ?

 

[Rolfe]

The day you slam your left foot against the footrest because your car juddered slightly going over a traffic calming installation, as recounted in post #17, you can call yourself distracted.

 

[DaevM]

On my Kia Soul there would be a sensation, albeit briefly of total brake failure when approaching something that really did need accurate braking (railings, right turn across oncoming traffic kinda thing). Just for fraction of a second it was terrifying. In 4 years it happened maybe half a dozen times. It was kind of like losing grip in the wet on metalwork, drains etc.
Never got to the bottom of that one. Mentioned it to the garage who weren't particularly interested (no accidents) and, if I remember correctly a fellow forum member reckoned a s/w update resolved it.
That was distracting.

 

[tsedge]

Meanwhile, back on track....
I've been thinking about this and willing to blame anything but myself....
I've driven many automatics over the years and never done this before.
I reckon it's the transition to little twiddly dial for gears and little pokey button for handbrake. I've had 43 years or so of gear levers and handbrakes ( and on/off key!!) to ensure car going nowhere when I get out. Mostly big clunky things confirming it ain't going nowhere. Once pulled the handbrake lever clean off in a beetle!! ?
The slightest distraction and I messed up. Thank MG for thinking about that, inadvertently or not. ?

Don't be too hard on yourself, it happens more often than you think. I imagine it is pretty disturbing to experience but the body can fool the mind (or vice versa) more easily than we like to believe.

If anyone is distracted at precisely the right moment, something like this can happen. You were initially unlucky but it ended well.

I hate the little gear dial with a vengeance, would far prefer a gear lever, even a column shift, the dial is unintuitive, fiddly, slow and I have to stare at it to check it has worked. It is rubbish.

 

[Ian Key]

I hate the little gear dial with a vengeance, would far prefer a gear lever, even a column shift, the dial is unintuitive, fiddly, slow and I have to stare at it to check it has worked. It is rubbish.

It could be worse. I see at a recent inquest that the judge has told Jaguar to rethink their push button gear selector after an owner accidentally selected drive without looking which button he was pressing when he wanted reverse. He squashed a child between his car and a van in front killing the child.

 

[tsedge]

It could be worse. I see at a recent inquest that the judge has told Jaguar to rethink their push button gear selector after an owner accidentally selected drive without looking which button he was pressing when he wanted reverse. He squashed a child between his car and a van in front killing the child.

That is awful! I don't know the Jaguar system but I am gessing it doesn't use different button shapes for D and R: that's a classic design lesson from aircraft - make different levers/buttons have different shaped handles/surfaces so you can't easily operate the wrong one by mistake.

 

[Ian Key]

That is awful! I don't know the Jaguar system but I am gessing it doesn't use different button shapes for D and R: that's a classic design lesson from aircraft - make different levers/buttons have different shaped handles/surfaces so you can't easily operate the wrong one by mistake.

Yes it is.
The car was a Jaguar iPace which uses 3 buttons on the side of the centre console to select drive, neutral, reverse.

Design of £70k car contributed to boy, 7, being fatally crushed, coroner warns

A CORONER has issued an urgent warning to Jaguar after a boy, seven, was crushed to death between two cars. Alfie Tollett was tragically killed on February 19 last year after the driver of a Jaguar…

www.thesun.co.uk

 

[tsedge]

Yes it is.
The car was a Jaguar iPace which uses 3 buttons on the side of the centre console to select drive, neutral, reverse.

Design of £70k car contributed to boy, 7, being fatally crushed, coroner warns

A CORONER has issued an urgent warning to Jaguar after a boy, seven, was crushed to death between two cars. Alfie Tollett was tragically killed on February 19 last year after the driver of a Jaguar…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Right, those buttons, although turned around are the same shapes / surfaces.

 

[mg4mc]

At least it looks like they have put Drive towards the front and Reverse towards the rear. Unlike the levers in autos, which you pull back to go forwards - who came up with that idea!

For me the MG knob is also the wrong way around (at least for RHD cars) you twist it away from you backwards and towards you to go forwards.

 

[tsedge]

At least it looks like they have put Drive towards the front and Reverse towards the rear. Unlike the levers in autos, which you pull back to go forwards - who came up with that idea!

For me the MG knob is also the wrong way around (at least for RHD cars) you twist it away from you backwards and towards you to go forwards.

There have been endless arguments about whether auto boxes are the wrong way around and whether reverse should be before drive etc...!!!

 

[Rolfe]

Yes it is.
The car was a Jaguar iPace which uses 3 buttons on the side of the centre console to select drive, neutral, reverse.

Design of £70k car contributed to boy, 7, being fatally crushed, coroner warns

A CORONER has issued an urgent warning to Jaguar after a boy, seven, was crushed to death between two cars. Alfie Tollett was tragically killed on February 19 last year after the driver of a Jaguar…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Ten seconds! There's more to that than a wrong button press. And the driver died shortly afterwards. Unless it was a suicide, I suspect someone who should not have been driving due to health issues. Can you imagine going forwards for a full ten seconds when you think you're going backwards?

Although it's a fair point about the buttons too.

At least it looks like they have put Drive towards the front and Reverse towards the rear. Unlike the levers in autos, which you pull back to go forwards - who came up with that idea!

For me the MG knob is also the wrong way around (at least for RHD cars) you twist it away from you backwards and towards you to go forwards.

I think clockwise for forward and anticlockwise for reverse is logical. But I still get it wrong sometimes. I have never, however, driven for ten seconds in the wrong direction.

 

[DaevM]

I think clockwise for forward and anticlockwise for reverse is logical. But I still get it wrong sometimes. I have never, however, driven for ten seconds in the wrong direction.

Yet - fingers crossed that time never comes ?