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Offline Rusty Nuts

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Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« on: June 24, 2022, 15:41:32 »
Why, in my new Peugeot e-partner, do I push a switch forwards to travel backwards, and backwards to travel forwards?


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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2022, 16:11:04 »
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2022, 16:14:45 »
oops. Try now.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2022, 17:02:44 »
I am not a guro, automatic gear patterns have always been arranged in this pattern I believe. The only one I can think that was different being the DAF CVT, with the lever being pushed forward to go forward and the lever pulled back to reverse.

Mr Nick will be along later (tendons permitting) to either confirm or ridicule my DAF theory.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2022, 17:06:37 »
Yes, you just beat me to it TL .

The configuration had always been that way so a gear stick/lever or button would move in the opposite direction to travel .
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2022, 17:22:17 »
I'll challenge the premise of the question in that you're actually pushing a switch down or up.
Convention tends to be to press a switch down to turn something on and back up to turn it off and in this case reverse is sort of extra/more off than off if you see what I mean... :dl_hyperhysteria:
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2022, 17:26:34 »
It's definitely forward/back rather than up/down. I'd suspected the legacy layout, but it's years since I drove a slushbox. It does seem a bit pointless on a purely electric layout.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2022, 19:51:58 »
Does the rev counter go anti clockwise too.... it does in my 3008 and winds me up
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2022, 20:03:34 »
It's a Brexit switch. Press to go forwards but.......well you know.  :roll:
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2022, 20:37:44 »
It's French, Joe.


 @ Ridaz - rev counter? Not sure I've got one. 1100 spin speed, maybe?
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2022, 20:51:04 »
Why when I put my foot down on the accelerator do I go back or forward but not down.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2022, 21:27:21 »
I assume it's the rhd UK version though RN, you know just for export.  :icon_wink:
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2022, 22:05:28 »
My first automatic car, a Merc was tiptronic, the same really, I always thought the lever movement was strange but, you get used to it.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2022, 16:53:50 »
I watched your video, but then this one was straight underneath and I got distracted.

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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2022, 16:59:23 »
Sorry, I've snapped out of it now. Here's a pic of my Wife's CT200h Gear Selector. I've always though it was wrong.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #15 on: June 27, 2022, 20:09:37 »
Seems standard across other EVs too. Avoids confusion when you change to other vehicles.
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Re: Any vehicle design gurus on here?
« Reply #16 on: June 27, 2022, 20:22:13 »
My electric fork lift ( and the lpg one) and the electric trucks in the mills were all forward for forward, back for reverse.
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