How many have accidentally shifted into park after reversing?

[MeeLee]

I have the tendency to look back when I drive backwards (despite the rear camera screen).

I have found that occasionally I think I'm dialing the reverse into Neutral, I ended up dialing the reverse into park.
If I'm going fast, not a lot happens, just cracking (the parking gear doesn't hook into the lever, but just rattles).
If I'm going slow though, the hook latches in the gear, and the car jolts to a stand still.

Since this isn't the first time that it happened, and I think my transmission mounts are damaged because of this, I was wondering if other people experience the same thing?

 

First off, in a car loaded with this amount of technology, it's rather odd, that no engineer has thought of not allowing to go into park at speeds above 1 to 2 MPH; which is just a simple safety mechanism that can be programmed in software.
Second of all, I'm not fond of the dial; like AT ALL!
With most automatics, there's a forward/backward motion that even when looking backwards, is hard to mistake.
The dial sometimes allows one to dial in whatever you want, regardless of at what speed the car is running (though I never tried to reverse it on the highway, and not planning to).

I think this problem is more than human error. It's a design flaw. And I'm wondering if more people have had this happen?

[Waldo]

There is software logic in the system.  If you put it in R while driving down the highway it will just go into neutral.  This has been true on many cars for quite some time (my 2010 MKT with a traditional gear level will do the same thing).  With a traditional "stick" like the one in my 2014 FFH, you can easily slide it into P instead of stopping at R, it really just comes down to your muscle memory.  IIRC it's designed to still go into Park up to 6mph, from 6-11 it will just grind, and then above 11mph it will not attempt to go into Park.  The engineers have done the calculations and figured out those are the speeds at which no damage will occur, so that's what they allow.

 

But you're not alone in your thoughts, in fact the Police Interceptors specifically don't use the rotary shifter that the Explorer has mainly for exactly this concern.  But the Police have a lot of scenarios where they are very quickly throwing the car from D to R and timing is critical.  Personally I'd say 95% of the time I go to R, it's coming from P, so this isn't really an issue for me.

[MeeLee]

They should have a 'stop' button, just like a start button, or just remove the P altogether.
No need to have a Park, when turning off the car (start-stop button) basically is the same command.