[TheRedSlantnose]

I've always found the whole drive-by-wire thing to be a bit iffy because it isn't entirely foolproof. With a traditional gear lever, you can easily see what position it's in and therefore easily determine if the car is in gear or not, but when you have a dial to shift gears, it looks the same in any position and you instead have a light to tell you what gear it's in. If you're not careful, you may forget to check that light, and if that light fails for some reason, you'd have to guess what gears to shift into.

I don't own any cars that have a dial shifter, so I'm only going off of my impression on it.