Handbags   (The sad, the bad and the ugly. Non-productive stuff here.)

My car has a automatic gearbox with auto stop and start The gear shift is
P -park
R-reverse
N -neutral
D-drive
If I stop at a junction I can either put my foot on the brake and then the engine switches OFF on stop/start but obviously the brake lights are light up and may dazzle the driver behind or I can put the shift into park and again the stop and start works but when I go to move the gear shift has to go through reverse gear then neutral then into drive and the driver behind will see the reverse lights come on for a second. If I put the car in neutral and put the hand brake on the stop and start will not work and the engine will be on tick over. I think this a bad design Probably this is why we see so many cars brake lights when we are parked behind them