palmermd
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mitch672 said:The Leaf may be designed to go into neutral so it can be pushed, while its charging, that might make SOME sense (for example if you needed to move it a few feet in your garage)
That is why I suggested that they change the logic such that you have to hold it in neutral for several seconds before it allows you to go into neutral. This simple logic change would have forced my wife to look at the dash and it would have said something to the effect that you have to unplug the car before it will start. I'm sure it already said that, but she was in auto-pilot mode when getting in and starting. There needed to be something to break that, and not going into neutral when she put it into reverse would have worked perfectly.
Lots of reasons why you might want to put it into neutral when it is plugged in. One possible scenario is that the proximity input failed and the car thinks it is plugged in when it is not. You would have to go to neutral in order to roll the car onto a rollback tow truck.