Very Good! Great Guess! It wasn't meant to belittle but to edify. I'm a former dumbass teacher by trade sharing what I think is important knowledge. (upvoted)
Close... "R" Do you know what is that you are looking at? It's a gear shift pattern from a standard transmission. The better sports cars today and most cars 60+ years ago used them. It was harder for regular drivers to learn. So, automatic transmissions became widely adopted in the US -starting in the mid-1950s, with over 80% of new cars featuring them by 1957. The R is for "reverse."
