In article ,
:Jerry: wrote:


Indeed, many people do think that the parking pawl can be relied on to
hold a vehicle only to discover that their vehicles have disappeared
when they return (they are normally found at the bottom of the hill,
embedded into what ever they collided with....

which is probably why I was taught - 50 years ago - to park with the engine
in gear. And of course what "Park" does on automatic boxes.

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