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No problem with showing that..
We have a Renault with the weired 'starter button' .... Key card in slot, clutch in, quick stab at starter button ... The system takes over and the thing hopefully starts up - as 'drive' sits hands on wheel .. an odd feeling, almost as odd as the 'auto release on drive take up' - handbrake - Switch operated.
Fine so far.
Two things.
1) If the engine should cut out on let's say a level crossing, no chance of driving her clear on the starter button ... interlocks prevent this.. (I drove a mini out of the deeper part of a flooded road after dousing the HTs with the old bow-wave ... used the floor mounted starter button, in 1st gear. )
2) God forbid a Renault brake situation at anything above 30 mph, judicious use of the hand brake in most cars may provide a safe outcome - but Renault's 'On or Off' just is not very subtle ... Haven't tried applying the brake at anything above a fast walking pace .. I wonder if it might also be interlocked out?
Just a musing.
No problem with showing that..
We have a Renault with the weired 'starter button' .... Key card in slot, clutch in, quick stab at starter button ... The system takes over and the thing hopefully starts up - as 'drive' sits hands on wheel .. an odd feeling, almost as odd as the 'auto release on drive take up' - handbrake - Switch operated.
Fine so far.
Two things.
1) If the engine should cut out on let's say a level crossing, no chance of driving her clear on the starter button ... interlocks prevent this.. (I drove a mini out of the deeper part of a flooded road after dousing the HTs with the old bow-wave ... used the floor mounted starter button, in 1st gear. )
2) God forbid a Renault brake situation at anything above 30 mph, judicious use of the hand brake in most cars may provide a safe outcome - but Renault's 'On or Off' just is not very subtle ... Haven't tried applying the brake at anything above a fast walking pace .. I wonder if it might also be interlocked out?
Just a musing.