And THIS is why it’s so intuitive for me. I’ve driven a few cars with a pattern of R at the top left, and 1st at the bottom left.
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Anyway, all these arguments will be irrelevant once science invents the Molcar.
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Yah, reverse being left and forward is pretty common. It would feel natural to me as well, without my having thought about why, 
I think manual transmission people are used to whatever, because you know that there’s no choice in the matter. Gears are arranged however they have to be to make the internals work as needed. Anyone who’s driven a few tractors experiences this first hand. You’ve got somewhere between 10-20 gears, and they are arranged in some insane pattern that makes no sense visually, but it’s how it had to be done. Usually it’s a double or triple HH pattern, and often adjacent gears are in completely different HH zones, requiring about six moves to get from one to the next. 
For a while in the 1970s John Deere was using sequential dog boxes, which made a lot of sense, actually. Not sure why they stopped. Maybe there were maintenance issues with them.
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That’s a real one, in case anyone is thinking it’s a funny ‘shoop. That’s from a large quarry truck. For farm tractors, ones like this are more typical. Complicated, but manageable:
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Something, something, Steyr-Puch Haflinger…
Big ones often do too! The second one is a range stick, usually for the final drive (but sometimes for a granny box or transfer case behind the transmission). Big trucks still use these as well, though they’re generally electric. Like on a grain truck or a gravel truck, there will be a plunger on the gear shift that you can pull up or push down for high or low range on the differentials. It’s a way to double the gears without making the transmission way more complicated.
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