This is your reminder that the ‘park’ state of a transmission is just a small pawl that is pushed into one of the gears. On uneven surfaces and/or with sufficient force the pawl can simply slip off the gear (or just break) and allow the vehicle to roll.
With electronic parking brakes on modern cars, i wonder if they can’t be applied automagically after a few seconds of the vehicle being in park.
This is not an issue manual transmissions have, btw.
I have a car (Toyota SUV) that does the automatic parking brake thing. There’s also a button to manually brake/unbrake them but I’ve not yet found a reason to use it.
If you see a kid or 3 you dont like. 2018 gmc acadia.
Of you want to kill someone, just use a car and say it was an accident. All will be forgiven as long as you weren’t road raging or drinking beforehand.
This society is sick with cars making all the laws…
The litany of “tragic accident” in the comments on the article remind me just how far we have to go in the crash vs accident battle.
The number of drivers that call the parking brake the “emergency brake” is appalling. My mother was one, and I hear it on a fairly regular basis. Bad driver training.