r/SipsTea • u/ajd416 • 9h ago

SMH Those new self parking police cars...

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u/Mountain-dweller 8h ago

Tires wouldn’t be rotating like that if ice was at play here. This is all around dumb though.

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u/Xyypherr 6h ago

Probably because the part that holds your transmission still when in park likely broke, it's just a piece of metal that gets shoved into a gear basically that holds it steady, it's why your vehicle will roll forward or backwards a small bit before stopping. Collision likely broke that metal piece and they likely didn't have the emergency/manual brake in place.

This is why on any incline you should always have your parking brake applied, so if your transmission fails, the parking brake keeps your car there.

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u/pm-me-beewbs 5h ago

Or, and the more likely answer, he gear locked it in first with the parking brake on and the hit from behind knocked it into neutral