This is forever burned into my head. I’ve not really watched that series and I remember nothing else. Just PRNDL.
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Aux@feddit.uk 4 days agoWhat’s a PRNDL?
Randelung@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low (gear). The 5 “standard” positions the standard shifter levers could be set to. Versus the weird stuff like dials or push-buttons that are incredibly hard to operate by muscle-memory if you aren’t looking right at them.
Aux@feddit.uk 4 days ago
EVs have no gears, they don’t need this stuff. Or they have a manual simulation.
Draegur@lemm.ee 4 days ago
EVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse. EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode. EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.
“Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.
happydoors@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Just gotta say I’m here for this energy
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, actually a low mode would be useful for exactly this, in exactly the same use cases as for ICE cars. Whatever my regen is configured as, if I’m heading down a steep icy hill, maybe I could use an easy way to maximize regen. Heck maybe my battery is not warmed up yet so I don’t have effective regen, but I could really use it for that hill even if that battery can’t use it
Aux@feddit.uk 3 days ago
It seems to me that you don’t understand how EVs work. They don’t have gears (usually) and they don’t have a constantly running combustion engine.
Neutral and park (park is just neutral with a break automatically applied) do not exist in EVs, because EVs don’t have a constantly running engine. You only need neutral to disengage the clutch to prevent its wear during stops, because always running engine means that the car is always moving. That’s not happening in EVs.
And you don’t need low/boost because EVs don’t have gears.
So, you only have reverse and drive.