[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[wtjs]

Customers described their
Customers described their cars suddenly accelerating or braking hard. Some escaped with a scare; others ended up in ditches, crashing into walls or colliding with oncoming vehicles
Looks like a a pre-emptive attempt at a new dodge, for when the present ‘medical incident but I’m completely well now’ stops working

[NotNigel]

Isn’t what you’ve quoted just

Isn’t what you’ve quoted just standard driving practices?

[Tom_77]

Tesla Drivers and Their

Tesla Drivers and Their Problems – https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

Customers described their cars suddenly accelerating or braking hard. Some escaped with a scare; others ended up in ditches, crashing into walls or colliding with oncoming vehicles.

[mdavidford]

Cross? It makes me bloody

Cross? It makes me bloody furious! 

[chrisonabike]

mdavidford wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

On my bicycle the gears are left and right – I often end up going in circles as a result. 🤔

Sounds like some serious cross-chaining there?

[mdavidford]

On my bicycle the gears are

On my bicycle the gears are left and right – I often end up going in circles as a result. 🤔

[stonojnr]

The issue is you want the
The issue is you want the driving gears separated by the neutral, so there’s no chance of knocking,or the gear jumping into another driving gear whilst moving, because that would end badly. You want the park somewhere that’s also out the way as it locks the transmission but near something where your going to be using it alot more, like reversing into or out of parking spaces. And so that’s just how they mechanically designed them back in the day and the ordering stuck. Manufacturers have tried changing it but it’s always led to more issues because people are used to the existing format which is standardised in the US iirc

But even on my manual box I have reverse forward, and some forward gears in reverse. On motorbikes first gear is often down and then the rest are all up

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Automatic. Always puzzles me why D is pull back and R is push forward. It should be the other way round.

Seriously??    I’d love to see the health & safety assessment on that one…

[Hirsute]

Automatic. Always puzzles me
Automatic. Always puzzles me why D is pull back and R is push forward. It should be the other way round.

[brooksby]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

More like drove it off the wall.

There appear to be a great many motorists who accidentally put their cars in first-gear instead of reverse (or vice versa).  How do you do that?

[David9694]

I don’t think I’ve got the

I don’t think I’ve got the strength today to delve into the 50+ comments:

Oxford travel companies call for congestion charge (paywall)

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25292493.oxford-travel-companies-call-congestion-charge/

[Hirsute]

More like drove it off the
More like drove it off the wall.

[David9694]

Driver’s nightmare after car

Driver’s nightmare after car falls off wall and lands on Devon beach spot

You can’t park there etc

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/drivers-nightmare-after-car-falls-10319539?int_source=nba

[David9694]

Essex Police urgently want to

Essex Police urgently want to speak to this man

[Hirsute]

Bit of a strange one – the

Bit of a strange one – the steering failed but the driver ended up in a garden in their bus. The road is very straight there and if they had come out of the side road how would they be going so fast as to end up in the garden ?

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/25288626.bus-crashes-off-road-paxman-avenue-colchester/

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