As to the gearstick, as Kezo said, just twist it to the stop forward, off you go. That’s pretty simple. My gripe lies more with the general position of the stalk – a gearshift needs to be reachable with the left hand imho, so i can twirl on the wheel while i shift the car in reverse. Now particularly on three point turns or adjusting for a parking bay (basically every time currently since i’m not used to the size yet), you need to come to a stop, take the hand of the wheel, grab the wiper stalk by accident, put the car in forward, start twirling the wheel, stop, take the hand of the wheel, shift in reverse, start twirling again. It’s obnoxious. Another pet peeve i already have is the auto hold. It doesn’t apply properly if you shift too fast in reverse after coming to a stand still – you throw it in reverse and the car just rolls back – while the wheels are still pointing the wrong way because i couldn’t twirl on it due to the gear stalk.
Before you shift, you have to come to a stop and put your foot on the brake before it will go forwards or backwards, so in theory there is a split second of your right hand away from the wheel, however it’s not only Hyundai, Skoda do it with Kodiaq, not sure with the Enyak, but VW i.d’s have to the right, even Mercedes have put theirs on the right for quite a while. I wouldn’t be suprised, if it because we drive on the wrong side of the road and manufacturers are too damn lazy to switch them.
Autohold – try pressing the brake pedal a little harder at stop or it won;t activate, better still ditch autohold and just control with footbrake.