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Originally Posted by BimmerBoomer
The issue here is inadvertently finding that the car is locked in neutral at speed. I just tossed out black ice as an example, but generally I agree that there is almost no situation where I would deliberately shift into neutral at speed. But it came to mind because I might want to manually downshift on black ice, and certainly couldn't hit the brake to escape neutral.
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I completely agree that what you described should not be possible and is clearly a design defect, if in fact it is the same for many cars. I'm not sure if that is the case, and I also certainly have no plans on attempting to duplicate it. I have the 8AT and never use the auto-shift option because I think it's silly (and doesn't really work the way I would expect it to). For me it's pretty much all or nothing, next car I'll get a manual, but for now the gee whiz computers can shift for me.