One more point - it’s not that it’s competition per se it’s licensing.  Let’s take cornhole boards that people love to build with sports logos.  They’re charging a lot more for those boards with sports logos and selling a lot more of them because of the logo so it’s only fair that the logo owner get a licensing fee.  And they should be allowed to decide whether it’s a product they want their logo on.  

That’s not how I read it.  It said that if the shifter wasn’t put all the way in park then it could be jarred out of park.  But it sounded to me like once it was in park it was ok.  But maybe I misread it.  

Cost and resources to change over.  Huge impact on supply chain contracts old and new.  I think the EV skunkworks project really demonstrated how much this was needed.

I'm used to seeing an occasional UPS F-650 during my trips on I 495 which is the outer most beltway around  Boston but the other day I saw 4.  At least one was new as instead of old school mirrors it had the large "aero" mirrors supported by one lower mounting arm.

I understand and agree up to a point. We were putting out a product that was made to be worn one time for a few hours, probably tossed into a crowd of single 20-something dudes and perhaps then end up in a landfill or dangling from a rear view mirror. The college and pro team merch. departments were not themselves competing in this space then or now, so why the heavy hand? It is constant problem on homemade craft sites like Etsy. The argument was/is that, the items are hand made from online and retail bought logo fabrics and therefore not an trademark infringement; she had no way of knowing whether the imprinted fabrics were or were not themselves an infringement. The other objection we had was there seemed to be no consistency to corporate or Etsy's enforcement; some got whacked while others didn't. Moot point now, anyway. She quit/retired from the biz and makes quilts- no logos of course- and donates them to womens' shelters and other non profits. End of thread hijack. 

I was around for that one, and that was not always case.  Ford had a notoriosly junky and wear-prone steering column shifter, sloppy linkage, and a weak detent spring in the transmission.  They could fall out of 'park' from vibration with the engine idling, but true you shouldn't leave a vehicle idling unattended with the parking brake not set.  

This.  Other manufacturers saw this coming some time ago, don't know what took Ford so long to address the issue.  Ford needs to adopt a system like GM's Global B.  Global B did have some issues in the beginning with OTA updates killing batteries but they have that situation well in hand now, and within the next couple of years Global B will be rolled out across all vehicle lines. 

Honestly, with how upside down allegiances have flipped these last few months, I wonder if he's still a Tesla fan. 

FTFY   Although to be fair he was only wrong about EVs, Tesla and Autonomous vehicles.