Car did not restart in Traffic

[Sanathan]

I dropped off someone at the Curbside and had to open Driver side door to hand them something. Then I started the car and heard sound in car, notifying Driver side door is open. (it was closed but not aligned completely). Since the traffic was behind me, I did not stop to close the door. At the Signal, I just opened the door slightly to confirm it was Driver side door and closed it. When I opened the Door, car automatically went to Parking. Now I wanted to restart car (in Traffic) so I tried D, and car did not recognize D, but remained in P. Then I just tried R to see if it goes behind (slightly). No it did not change
I tried D few times, but car was in P. Luckily (before signal turned green) in about a minute it turned D and I could drive off.
Is this one off issue? or a bug. I will try in a safe parking lot to reproduce same scenario and see if this problem happens.
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[elin]

Did you press the brakes while trying to switch to D or R? I've only encountered not being able to switch "gears" when I forget to press brake pedal.

 

[Sanathan]

Did you press the brakes while trying to switch to D or R? I've only encountered not being able to switch "gears" when I forget to press brake pedal.

Thanks.
Oh, am unable to recall if I did or not.
I am confident, I did not do anything different when it restarted vs it did not start (having said that, memory is fickle in such situations). So it is possible.

 

[hmp10]

I dropped off someone at the Curbside and had to open Driver side door to hand them something. Then I started the car and heard sound in car, notifying Driver side door is open. (it was closed but not aligned completely). Since the traffic was behind me, I did not stop to close the door. At the Signal, I just opened the door slightly to confirm it was Driver side door and closed it. When I opened the Door, car automatically went to Parking. Now I wanted to restart car (in Traffic) so I tried D, and car did not recognize D, but remained in P. Then I just tried R to see if it goes behind (slightly). No it did not change
I tried D few times, but car was in P. Luckily (before signal turned green) in about a minute it turned D and I could drive off.
Is this one off issue? or a bug. I will try in a safe parking lot to reproduce same scenario and see if this problem happens.
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It's been a while, but I've had this happen several times when dropping friends off at their house. I put the car in Park for them to get out, then shift back into Drive and get no response for a minute or two.

 

[koflo]

There’s an old thread floating around here somewhere around this issue. I’d have to dig it up but you may have better luck searching for it on the forum.

 

[Sanathan]

Thank you, I will look at the older thread.