MikeinDenver wrote:Coming from driving manuals I also find the shift pattern to not be intuitive. Up is for D, back is for R. Every manual I have owned from an Acura Integra to a Dodge Ram all had that pattern.
Not every manual does. Many 3-speed floor-shift gearboxes were built back in the day with reverse forward and 1st gear back. The older Porsche 901 5-speed transaxle had 1st gear back and reverse forward. Many sequential manual boxes have reverse gear forward from the neutral position and all other forward gears a pull backwards from there. It's the driver's job to adapt to the controls of whatever car they get into--you can't expect every shifting mechanism to be the same, or even comply with whatever your perception of "intuitive" is! The Leaf arrangement has never bothered me. It took a matter of minutes to adapt to it, and I have never shifted into the wrong gear accidentally in 3.5 years of driving it. This complaint is a "tempest in a teapot." If Nissan had made the car turn left when you rotated the steering wheel clockwise, you would have a beef, but the arrangement they chose for the shifting mechanism conforms to the millions of automatic shifters with the standard PRNDL sequence, except they made P a pushbutton and there is no L gearing. Get used to it!MikeinDenver wrote:Coming from driving manuals I also find the shift pattern to not be intuitive. Up is for D, back is for R. Every manual I have owned from an Acura Integra to a Dodge Ram all had that pattern.
ttweed wrote:Not every manual does. Many 3-speed floor-shift gearboxes were built back in the day with reverse forward and 1st gear back. The older Porsche 901 5-speed transaxle had 1st gear back and reverse forward. Many sequential manual boxes have reverse gear forward from the neutral position and all other forward gears a pull backwards from there. It's the driver's job to adapt to the controls of whatever car they get into--you can't expect every shifting mechanism to be the same, or even comply with whatever your perception of "intuitive" is! The Leaf arrangement has never bothered me. It took a matter of minutes to adapt to it, and I have never shifted into the wrong gear accidentally in 3.5 years of driving it. This complaint is a "tempest in a teapot." If Nissan had made the car turn left when you rotated the steering wheel clockwise, you would have a beef, but the arrangement they chose for the shifting mechanism conforms to the millions of automatic shifters with the standard PRNDL sequence, except they made P a pushbutton and there is no L gearing. Get used to it!MikeinDenver wrote:Coming from driving manuals I also find the shift pattern to not be intuitive. Up is for D, back is for R. Every manual I have owned from an Acura Integra to a Dodge Ram all had that pattern.
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