In 2017 I was touring France with my family from the US. I rented a Renault for the first time. I moved the gear shift all the way up until it stopped absent-mindedly thinking I was in park to get out of the car to take a picture of a canyon. Suddenly my wife started screaming as the car started to reverse down the canyon. If the car went just 1/10 of a kilometer/hr faster I would not have been able to enter the car before it fell over a ledge down the canyon as this particular scenic overlook did not have any guard rails. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put all the gears in a straight line so that it can never stop accidentally at neutral. All teh cars I have driven thus far in the US are like this and it prevents this absent-minded mistake that is sure to cost some people their lives. I got lucky but I came a hair away from losing my whole family.