Getting used to push-to-start -- unlearning habits

[kakerlak]

So, my new 8 year old car is the first I've ever had with keyless ignition. The first I've ever actually driven, for that matter.

And all this time, I'd assumed the push-to-start cars were just racecar-style starter buttons, rather than a button that prompts the car to go through its own start up procedure.

The thing is, I've got like 25 years worth of ingrained driving habits and one of them is just the act of starting the car and putting it into gear -- muscle memory stuff. Really, really used to throwing the automatic transmission into gear as soon as I take my hand away from the dash (because that used to always mean the car has started and ready to drive).

More times than I'd like to admit, I've pushed the start button on the Genesis and immediately thrown it into gear before it's started. Once the car hilariously admonished me for my idiocy, but the other times it's managed to violently start and engage gear at roughly the same time.

I'd like to stop doing this, but I'm realizing it's super subconscious, ingrained behavior and honestly getting worse as I get more used to the car and more of the where all the handles, buttons, levers, etc are. Those hand/object interactions are rolling over to the subconscious realm.

I'm not sure what the point of this post is; I haven't had a lot of coffee yet.

 

[EdP]

So, my new 8 year old car is the first I've ever had with keyless ignition. The first I've ever actually driven, for that matter.

And all this time, I'd assumed the push-to-start cars were just racecar-style starter buttons, rather than a button that prompts the car to go through its own start up procedure.

The thing is, I've got like 25 years worth of ingrained driving habits and one of them is just the act of starting the car and putting it into gear -- muscle memory stuff. Really, really used to throwing the automatic transmission into gear as soon as I take my hand away from the dash (because that used to always mean the car has started and ready to drive).

More times than I'd like to admit, I've pushed the start button on the Genesis and immediately thrown it into gear before it's started. Once the car hilariously admonished me for my idiocy, but the other times it's managed to violently start and engage gear at roughly the same time.

I'd like to stop doing this, but I'm realizing it's super subconscious, ingrained behavior and honestly getting worse as I get more used to the car and more of the where all the handles, buttons, levers, etc are. Those hand/object interactions are rolling over to the subconscious realm.

I'm not sure what the point of this post is; I haven't had a lot of coffee yet.

Start car, put on seatbelt, go. Only takes a couple of seconds from button push to running and ready.

 

[kakerlak]

Start car, put on seatbelt, go. Only takes a couple of seconds from button push to running and ready.

That's not a bad idea! I've always kind of simultaneously grabbed the belt and buckled it with the left hand while the right hand goes to the ignition switch, now that I think about it. Maybe if I consciously use only the right hand, I can make the belt one a built in buffer for the starter, lol.

I feel like a moron typing all this stuff out, but feeling the car start as it dropped into drive was a real cringer.