I just started hearing about it, didn't realize who it was. Haven't heard of half the young celebs that have died this year.
but a parking brake accident? That's just E36 M3ty all the way around.
Damn! Boy, you never know, do you?
As someone who has been ran over, crushed and pinned by my own car, I know the feeling of being trapped and unable to free yourself. It sucks.
I hope he died relatively quickly and wasn't conscious for a long time.
What a tough break.
that's just berkeleyed up
I must take this time to point out yet again that if it's avoidable it's no accident. Set the brake and he's still alive to impress us with his accent in the next Trek film. Stupid damn shame he died this way.
Being killed by your own wessel is not funny.
I was never a star trek guy but a few weeks ago I caught the newer Kahn one and it was really good and held your interest well. That is a really sucks way to.go, rest in peace good sir.
That is a downer. At 1am, I wonder if drinking wad involved.
He was fantastic is burying the x and in odd Thomas.
Apparently TMZ reported he was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee. I wonder if this had anything to do with the e-shifter recall 
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nepa03focus wrote: I was never a star trek guy but a few weeks ago I caught the newer Kahn one and it was really good and held your interest well. That is a really sucks way to.go, rest in peace good sir.
that was the worst Trek movie ever made- worse even than the one with the whales..
G_Body_Man wrote: Apparently TMZ reported he was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee. I wonder if this had anything to do with the e-shifter recall
This.
It may be an accident, but that shifter design may have played a part. Scary.
I am a Trek nerd, and I really liked him in the new Trek movies. He did a great job with the role. Sucks that he went out that way.
Terrible news and a E36 M3ty way to go for anyone. Very interesting tidbit about the recalled Grand Cherokees with the confusing shifter. It is being reported that it was one of the affected models, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. In all honesty, how many people who drive an automatic actually engage the parking brake? I'd wager it's not the majority...
vwcorvette wrote: I must take this time to point out yet again that if it's avoidable it's no accident. Set the brake and he's still alive to impress us with his accent in the next Trek film. Stupid damn shame he died this way.
Yeah, the word accident is a euphemism for "horrible loss of property and/or life resulting directly from human carelessness", or something like that. Of course it was an accident, no one gets pinned and killed by their own car on purpose. But I agree that the word accident makes it seem innocent, which it is not.
I prefer "crash".
WilD wrote: Terrible news and a E36 M3ty way to go for anyone. Very interesting tidbit about the recalled Grand Cherokees with the confusing shifter. It is being reported that it was one of the affected models, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee. In all honesty, how many people who drive an automatic actually engage the parking brake? I'd wager it's not the majority...
And since no key in the ignition either with fancy push start, you also don't get the feedback that the "key won't come out".
novaderrik wrote:nepa03focus wrote: I was never a star trek guy but a few weeks ago I caught the newer Kahn one and it was really good and held your interest well. That is a really sucks way to.go, rest in peace good sir.that was the worst Trek movie ever made- worse even than the one with the whales..
It's not as bad if you accept that the JJ Trek movies are just Star Trek-themed action flicks. Also if you don't know that the story was based on a 9/11 conspiracy theory because the writer is a conspiracy nut.
My 2003 Dodge Ram has a similar problem. You can think it is in Park when it is in Reverse. The recall fix was to have the horn honk if the door is open and Reverse is still engaged. Disconcerting when you open the door to see behind the truck while backing.
It turns out that his Jeep had the confusing shifter that's been recalled. .
Is this the shifter with the issue? (I have no familiarity with these vehicles):
Apparently it is. I found a link:
Here is a good explanation from FCA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUWVYrpd-3g
It could easily be mistaken if in a hurry.
Was just about to post an explanation of that mechanism.
Putting that thing on a common consumer vehicle was asking for trouble. It's the first shifter on anything but a supercar or purpose-built race car that gives no tactile feedback on which basic drive mode the car is in (AFAIK all robo-manuals on non-supercars still have something that looks like an auto shifter, and you have to choose "D" to go through the forward gears with the paddles).
And then to add insult to injury, the indicator on the shifter itself is not very clear, with all drive modes lighted at the same time and the selected one being lighted a little brighter. They could've had only the selected drive mode light up, or used an OLED display, or even a 7-segment display, but no, they did this.
In reply to GameboyRMH:
It's not the first shifter like that. The BMW auto shifter does the same thing, only there's a PARK button at the top. BMW get around the Jeep issue by automatically shifting the vehicle into park whenever you open the door and remove your foot from the brake.
Should've expected BMW would replace a long-running functional standard with a shiny new doodad first 
At least, in typical German fashion, they were able to solve the problem by making the inner workings of the system more complex
uh, wasn't the prius first to this honor?
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