Covered in Seth Godin email, In Search of Poka- Yokes, Nov 14, 2021

". . . Your car might not let you switch to Drive unless you press the brake first. That’s because people who weren’t paying attention were slamming their Audi into the walls of their garage, thinking that they were hitting the brake, not the gas . . . It was easier than teaching people how to use the pedals the way they were intended."

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