Re: Auto-Park

Posted by Leeedy On 2016/6/23 15:01:49
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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
Now that actor Yelchin's death has finally moved Fiat-Chrysler to find a fix for their long-standing transmission selector problem, I read in NBC News that a part of the software "fix" will be an auto-park feature. So Packard was a bit ahead of the curve with the 1956 pushbutton auto-park feature?


As I have said many times in the past, and while someone, somewhere seems to be giving Packard's electronic pushbutton transmission selector a bad rap, it was wayyyyyy ahead of its time. Way ahead.

It was actually the world's first (or one of the first) electronic anti-theft "immobilizer" devices. And it was a safety feature.

Just one more time when Packard was ahead of the rest and giving us something both creative and and a taste of the future! In this case, 21st Century technology...all the way back in the 1950s.

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