Why the gears sequence in automatic transmission cars is almost always PRND?

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And why R is before D, making the driver behind you think you are backing up?

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so, it starts from the order Reverse-Neutral-Drive, which makes sense, one-direction | no-direction |opposite-direction.

now we have to add park, well you could put it right next to drive, but it’s not a good idea as it could make it easy to accidentally shift to park while driving which isn’t a good thing, so the only other reasonable place is before reverse

also this makes it so after drive you can have L or S, which are just froward with a slight twist

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