Automatic trans: correct usage at drive-through?

The_Traveller said:
This subject and thread is farking hilarious ( and absurd) ...
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Or you could actually contribute something of value, The Traveller, which takes the same amount of time to type out.

Do you have an automatic gearbox, for example, and what do you do in drive-throughs?
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Well it sure ain't Her Majesty's English, that's for shizzle.
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Sounds like slang, dawg. Which isn't American or British. It's slang, used for marketing and by lazy people who eat at fast food chains.
 
Anyhow the vast majority of time I see people in the Q/queue at the "Thru" is foot on the break/brake pedal. I'm referring to two pedal cars here.
 
I can't imagine many people would shift into park every time they stop in the drive-in queue.

If you can't handle brake lights in front of you, how do handle evening rush hour traffic, anyway?

Actually I find cars that shift into park and back to drive in a queue like that even more irritating as most of them shift through reverse so you get the reverse lights in your face briefly.
 
garp said:
I can't imagine many people would shift into park every time they stop in the drive-in queue.

If you can't handle brake lights in front of you, how do handle evening rush hour traffic, anyway?

Actually I find cars that shift into park and back to drive in a queue like that even more irritating as most of them shift through reverse so you get the reverse lights in your face briefly.
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I don't sit in evening rush hour, I choose where I live strategically to avoid wasting hours of my life.

Also I don't know what automatic transmissions you're referring to, but there's no going past reverse when you want to enter park on a BMW:
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Even if there was a brief flash of reverse lights (which I've never seen on any car except where the driver has done it accidentally by pushing the stick in the wrong direction), that'd still be preferable to 30 seconds to a minute of uninterrupted blinding full-brake. Anybody with even a hint of night vision knows what that's like.
 
Never been to one. The idea of eating food from there puts me off
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Also I don't know what automatic transmissions you're referring to, but there's no going past reverse when you want to enter park on a BMW:
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Even if there was a brief flash of reverse lights (which I've never seen on any car except where the driver has done it accidentally by pushing the stick in the wrong direction), that'd still be preferable to 30 seconds to a minute of uninterrupted blinding full-brake. Anybody with even a hint of night vision knows what that's like.
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Nope, 99% of automatics are like the below, the systems like that on newer BMWs etc are very new and not widespread - how do you not know this?
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