Anyone ever forget to hit the Park button?

[Crisis]

Given that I live in very flat country, I've become accustomed to never switching to Park and just shutting the car off, knowing that the electronic shifter always selects Park when the car shuts off. I actually really like that feature. However, I've got in the bad habit of assuming every vehicle with a push-button start does the same thing. In fact, I've gotten so used of this that on a couple of occasions now, I've done the same thing in my wife's Mazda 3. I feel a little stupid when I go to get out of the car and it starts rolling once I take my foot off the brake.

 

[Manaz]

Because if it's on P the car will / and should do all things necessary to prevent it from moving. Imo

Aside from the chance it damages the gearbox, I'd rather have the car held still by two methods than just one.

If it wasn't required/recommended, the handbrake wouldn't be there - car manufacturers aren't in the habit of putting cost, weight and complexity into their cars for no good reason.

 

[Tonkabob]

I always throw it into reverse, then remember to hit the P button, then pull the ebrake button. The funny thing is that auto-start/stop usually engages when I come to a full stop in my garage, then I hit the P button and the car starts back up again. Sometimes it even starts back up again when I unbuckle my seat belt. Then I need to turn the car off again. It's all very confusing.

Both those are to remind you the car is on so you don't walk away while the car is running. 95% of the time it goes to P automatically when i push the power button in drive so avoid the restart. (Even not using auto hold).

 

[YOWStinger]

Both those are to remind you the car is on so you don't walk away while the car is running. 95% of the time it goes to P automatically when i push the power button in drive so avoid the restart. (Even not using auto hold).

Oh, I know, I'm just contrasting with any other automatic car (though what the Stinger does is becoming industry standard now), where you'd always throw it all the way forward into P, stomp/yank on the e-brake pull the key out and get out of the car. Doing the equivalent does funny things to the Stinger. Especially the auto start/stop thing while putting it in park. Happens every time I get into a parking spot, full stop, car stops, hit P, car starts, hit start/stop button, car stops. Weird paradigm.