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scratt
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2010-02-08, 23:26

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Originally Posted by Roboman View Post
For vehicles installed with the push-button start (like the Venza), it's not exactly intuitive how to turn the engine off. You have to hold the button for three seconds, while panicky people are more likely to jam it quickly and repeatedly.
This is a valid point. I have only ever hired a car which does not have a key. Personally I'd want to be able to yank the key card to kill an engine, and if any car I bought did not have that feature I'd have it modified so that I could, or so that I had a separate kill switch.

I am not a fan of fly by wire. Nor am I a fan of anything being fully automatic. And I think drivers who like those features should think again.

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