>> Is this not taught anymore?
I was taught to put a parked car in gear, I think initially by my Father. He was a carp driver but his rationale for that was seeing his parent's car start to roll away while he drove them on holiday.
Had 3 Citroens with hydropneumatic brakes where the handbrake gripped the front disc. The BX at least had some history of running off if the disc cooled/contracted and the parking brake lost grip. Particularly careful there.
Current thinking with modern set ups is just to rely on the brakes. Danger of leaving it in gear is that you start it without selecting neutral and lurch forward doing damage to objects or people.
When looking for a car c2015 I test drove a Citroen C3 and automatically popped it into first at the end after applying the handbrake and stopping the engine. The salesman promptly knocked it back to neutral and said we don't do that any more. He was about 19 and there was an implied 'grandad' in his intonation.
I bought a Skoda instead.
The Skoda, and presumably other recent VAG, cars require the clutch to be depressed for the starter to operate.
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