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Well, let me point out some actual uses for the shift lock button... It's common in most asian countries to have a shift lock button on automatic transmissions. Yes, it releases the shift lock in case you want to release the car key outside the Park gear, because otherwise the key wouldn't be able to be released. In most cases, you need this function to allow parking the car in Neutral.
Due to crowded parking spaces, most places here allow parallel parking in front of side-to-side parked cars. To allow the side-to-side parked cars to exit the parking lot if a parallel parked car is blocking its way, the parallel parked car has to be pushed aside, thus, a parallel parked car has to be in neutral and e-brake has to be disengaged so it could be pushed. This has been a common practice in my country since a long time ago. If the car is an M/T, you just need to put the gear in neutral and let the e-brake disengaged. If the car is an A/T, you need to use the shift lock release feature to allow the key to be released when the gear is not in Park.
Of course this method of parking space-saving could only be done on parking lots with flat surface so the car wouldn't roll backward or forward.
Because this method of parking is very common in a lot of places in my country, some people even modified some cars without this feature (mazda2 and ford fiesta here) by releasing the actual shift lock mechanism so the car could be easily put in neutral.
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06-16-2010, 11:56 PM
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