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Why Drive and not Forward?

by "Steve W." <csr684NOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 20, 2008 at 03:29 PM

Ever get one of those HUH? questions stuck in your head? Here's the one 
posed to me by a neighbor.
How did PRNDL become the standard nomenclature for automatic
transmissions?

P- Park - Makes sense because that it what it does.
R- Reverse - Same as above.
N- Neutral - Ditto

D- Drive, Well you do "drive " the vehicle but why not F- Forward?

L- Low (or some variant of low) Lowest forward gear.

I didn't have a real definite answer for her. The closest I came up with 
was that it was easier to say "Prindle" than "Prinfle"

So anyone got some time to kill?

-- 
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York
 




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Why Drive and not Forward?
"Steve W." <  2008-03-20 15:29:40 
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Ad absurdum per aspera &l  2008-03-20 16:49:54 
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Stude <midlant@[EMAIL   2008-03-22 20:51:19 
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"Mike" <mik@  2008-03-21 02:20:53 
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aarcuda69062 <nonelson  2008-03-20 22:09:17 
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"Steve W." <  2008-03-20 23:16:26 
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aarcuda69062 <nonelson  2008-03-20 22:42:22 
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z <gzuckier@[EMAIL PRO  2008-03-21 14:15:31 
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lugnut <lugnut@[EMAIL   2008-03-21 11:15:54 
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kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-03-21 11:17:43 
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lugnut <lugnut@[EMAIL   2008-03-21 14:36:51 
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John 'Shaggy' Kolesar <  2008-03-21 18:43:48 
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lugnut <lugnut@[EMAIL   2008-03-22 09:19:32 
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spamTHISbrp@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-03-21 09:22:32 

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