roverhater

I was in a parking lot and saw a man pull into a tight spot. I started to drive past when he put it in reverse to back up and pull in straighter. I saw what was happening, but since I was in sport shift mode it took me that extra few moments, in that extra time he backed into my right front end. Funny part was I hadnt used sport shift in about a week. This blows.

observer

I'm sorry about that. But next time (touchwood), you can also try the horn

Dan Martin

What? So why didn't you stop?

tony4311

what the flamer said

Dan Martin

:ghey:

roverhater

I was stopped, he backed into me, i needed to back up to avoid the accident, go forward and the speed I am sure would have caused worse damage. Horn, didnt get to in time.

Dan Martin

Well that sucks. Sorry dude. :'(

iamhomin

Oh wow, that sucks.

Sturm

That sucks dude. I'm paranoid about driving in any parking lots. So many accidents happen in lots since people are so careless.

tony4311

:P

ah now it makes sense, sucks man

TSX 'R' US

ouch...sorry to hear

sleeper

sorry to hear that. how bad was the damage? just out of curiousity, what was the driver and his/her car like?

Trigger

hope it wont cost you that much to fix

I drive the Sport shift too, but whenever I go into a parking lot, or when i know that i'm going to park the car soon, i put into normal D mode and concentrate on the environment

Stokeless_TSX

ouch...i would have shot him.....

biker

You've been downrange too long.

jcg878

You seem to be into shooting people

jcg878

If he hit you, I hope it won't cost you anything to fix. Sorry to hear about it.

robert_tsxgeek

don't blame the shifter man...it's that blind SOB

vasponger

just think, if you had thrown it into reverse real fast you might of hit someone behind you, and you would of been at fault.

dzuy

that stinks. time to get a manual!

gfxdave99

wingwing

hmm... i don't really get it.. who's fault is it then?

dom

The time it takes to move the SS into "R" can't be that much different that moving from say 1st to "R" in a MT.

But ya, the horn is always the first place to go with car's approaching. And the TSX's horn is ever so sensitive so it would have been easy to avoid.

wingwing

and sorry to say but i used to drive Acura 3.2 TL, and i used that semi auto thing too.. but everything is as quick as putting it on automatic - responsiveness, reaction, etc.. so i don't get how it took the extra few moments..

vwong

TSXEuphoria

ditto!

dzuy

i was just kidding. but i do think it would take longer to move from SS to reverse. but then again, going into reverse in a manual is annoying b/c sometimes you have to go into gear then out then to reverse.

it's a sucky situation either way. shouldn't be zooming around in a parking lot anyway.

jlukja

He wasn't zooming around. He was stopped.

I think I understand. If you're not familiar with SS then your first instinct with an AT is to move the shift lever forward (thinking you're going from D to N then to R. Well, with SS engaged all you do is up-shift. Not sure how you could miss the horn though, mine is very sensitive.

MikeMa

Sorry to hear that.

That exact thing happened to me, but in an '85 Camry (my first car). The old-school bumpers worked well...the Caravan that hit me had more scratches than that old car!

However, I did try to go for reverse, but I tried too late (ie. I trusted the other driver too much, thinking she'd stop). The shift is the button style auto shifter, so I ended up in Neutral. I was able to hit the horn, but that was about 1 second before she hit me, and she didn't react in time.

Don't worry....if you didn't have time to hit the horn, you'd definitely not have time to flick the shifter through the gates to R. It's his/her fault anyway, so you should be okay. I guess that's one reason the button-type shifters are better, as you'd have slightly better chances in actually getting into R. It's too bad Acura didn't put a Mercedes kind of shift in there. Their shifter setup (with boot and such) looks nice, uses a button, and still has SportsShift. (I think part of the reason the car manufacturers do the gated shifter is to make the thing look better since gated shifters *are* more difficult to use, and don't seem to offer many advantages)

jcg878

No s**t 007, mine is crazy sensitive as well. Impossible to miss... even when you're adjusting the brightness of the gauges.

jcg878

IMO the gated shifter is ideal, since you don't have to look at it to tell what gear you're in - you can feel your way. In a way though, it discourages rapid shifting into reverse... normally a good thing, but not in this situation

bob shiftright

I beg to disagree. I think it's there primarily for "style", since MB was making this in the 1960s (do they still do it in 2004?). If it really made much of a difference, they'd design a gate of some sort on the BMW SMG gearboxes, at least I think they would. Anyway, I find it's easier to just shift for myself. Clutch-shift-clutch/gas. It's all pretty much permanently etched into my neural pathways and happens automatic now, anyway.

ClutchPerformer

It's the fault of the guy who backed up without looking (and hit roverhater).

ClutchPerformer

I think that'd make the SMG box excessively complex (and it's already pretty bad). Probably why it's not like that.

jcg is right: the function of the "standard" H-pattern is to tell you what gear you're in. That's why it's the same on most all cars (except some Lamborghinis).