He never got it into park. He thought it was and went to get out of the vehicle. When it started rolling backwards he probably lost his footing and didn't get out of the way. He then got pinned between a brick wall/mailbox and the vehicle, and asphyxiated.
I take it 15yrs ago you were buying cars from Eitheopia or something to have all that 60's technology?
I can't remember yesterday, but I damn sure remember cars from the 60s and 70s. I was being more than a bit sarcastic. If I ever win the lottery, Imma get one of those '66 Mustang replicas with modern drive train and electronics.
Minivans are real vans. Just mini. They take lots of people and stuff. And holds much more than an " SUV "of equivalent footprint Now get off my lawn Sent from my smatrfone
Minivans are what you get when you've been thinking with the little head and end up with a boatload of kids.
Meh...one kid, had minivans since the mid-90s. Comfortable for travel, large enough to sleep in, sliding doors make loading simple, and with proper motivation, you can engage the whims of the little head in relative comfort.
Look, if it doesn't have RWD and a real frame, its not an SUV or van or truck. They are all just weirdly shaped big sized station wagons. So mini vans are not real vans. Ridgelines are not real trucks. New explorer's are not real SUV's. But nobody cares. As long as they have nav screens that literally nobody pays to update, and parking sensors they don't repair after a rock chip to the paint over a sensor makes it whig out, people will pay absurd amounts of money for new vehicles.
Cars need to start and run and shift and stop. Lights and heat A/C maybe a radio. All the other shit you will someday regret that YOU allowed to happen when they outlaw vehicles operated by humans.
Back on topic the electric parking brake could use a bit of refinement, which I'm sure it will get. Perhaps already has for all I know. My stepson's girlfriend was driving her VW Jetta one day with her small dog on her lap looking out the window. Suddenly and without warning the dog jumped forward and his paw happened to hit the parking brake button. The brake engaged, stopping the car very quickly in the middle of traffic and most certainly would have resulted in a collision had the driver behind her not been ... an above average driver. This damaged the brake system and left the car pretty much undriveable until it was repaired (not cheaply either). The fact that the original designers of this system hadn't built-in some reasonable safeguard against accidental deployment seems at least negligent in my opinion.
New systems are designed to allow passenger to stop the car in case of driver emergency. Oh shit grandpa is stroking out!!! Push the brake button. In a newer BMWs pulling the ebrake switch at speed kills the throttle completely and engages all four brakes full power with antilock operation. Never heard if one damaging anything when operated. I too miss a good old manual ebrake slide though
After the toyota throttle issues you will always be able to use the emergency brake in emergency's. Or in non emergency's. VW will tell you to strap your dog down. Which you should.
A minivan is the unholy conception between a full-sized van and a typically uninspired station wagon (Ford Tempo, Chevy Celebrity, you pick) that gained popularity for people who wanted to become a bus driver but lacked either the vehicle control or the ability to hold their liquor. Kids today should be riding, unbelted, in the back of either a real station wagon (Roadmaster, LTD, Caprice) being slammed into the roof on back country roads or their fingers clutching at painted surfaces in the back of a unupholstered delivery van with tires squealing for traction on exit ramps... Minivan...responsible for raising pussies who can't take a hit and need a "safe place"... They probably furthered the decline of Western Civilization.
That and in most current cars the engine is not allowed to over power the brakes even if it is physically capable of doing so with out some override performed by the driver.