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Originally Posted by Ashikabi
1 yes. You are stopped, therefore parked.
2 enough that I don't want to feel with it. And not just any hill, only really steep ones
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1) Stopped in normal flowing traffic is not considered "parked." I just googled the definition of parking, this is from CA law.
463. "Park or parking" shall mean the standing of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose
of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or
passengers.
2) Whatever works, but when you don't rely on the handbrake you can make the transition correctly, even on steep hills, without rolling backwards.
It wouldn't have even been an option on the first few vehicles I had with manual as the "e-brake" on those were foot brakes.
This handbrake method has to be fairly new because when were handbrakes even introduced in vehicle manufacturing?
I admit I don't know and just googled this:
http://www.google.com/patents/US2963896
Apparently 1960 is when the patent was filed... so that's definitely after the manual transmission had been used for quite some time without it.