Parking in first without the handbrake.

[Pat Vegas]

I was nearly hit on a roundabout this morning when I decided to pull out just as the engine decided it wanted to turn itself off to be 'green'.

There are some things in my car I don't want to be automatic.

I sometimes used to have this problem where the car would decide to speed up as I am turning a corner.

[Burney]

Load of old nonsense. I'd pop the relay.

Yes. Trouble is that I've no idea what that means.

[Sir C]

Yes. Trouble is that I've no idea what that means.

Just find the fusebox in the engine compartment and pull out the fuse/circuit breaker/relay which governs the auto handbrake.

Obviously this might control some other electrical function as well, but hey ho.

[Ash]

I sometimes used to have this problem where the car would decide to speed up as I am turning a corner.

Jesus wept. These dreadful modern contraptions you lot drive sound fiendish!

Thank goodness I've got a proper decent, honest, antiquity to drive around where I'M in charge.

[Burney]

Just find the fusebox in the engine compartment and pull out the fuse/circuit breaker/relay which governs the auto handbrake.

Obviously this might control some other electrical function as well, but hey ho.

Hmmm. I think I'll give it a miss, tbh. Anyway, I'm handing it back this year and will not be getting another European car for obvious reasons.

[Ash]

Just find the fusebox in the engine compartment and pull out the fuse/circuit breaker/relay which governs the auto handbrake.

Obviously this might control some other electrical function as well, but hey ho.

Do the blighters not have control panels and settings menus to allow the user to configure the thing to their needs?

[Alberto Balsam Rodriguez]

What say you AWIMB? The past three days I’ve woken up to a back wheel that won’t move because the handbrake is frozen. Am I ok just parking it in first?

I always do that. I rarely, if ever, use the handbrake

[Sir C]

Do the blighters not have control panels and settings menus to allow the user to configure the thing to their needs?

They do, but they almost never allow you to turn off 'safety' features. Scared of being sued, one assumes.

[Pokster]

Yes. Trouble is that I've no idea what that means.

Dodgy car salesman you see, he'll get you to wind the clock back next

[Sir C]

Hmmm. I think I'll give it a miss, tbh. Anyway, I'm handing it back this year and will not be getting another European car for obvious reasons.

Will you be leasing / contract hiring? If so, I have just the chap for you.