What's completely useless about the parking brake? I use mine several times a day. I hate the POP on the transmission when coming out of park on an incline (something is loaded up with tension and doesn't like the sudden release). In fact, in some hairbrained idea of trying to preserve the CVT a little bit, my routine when parking is foot brake, parking brake, neutral, release foot brake, shift to park. Comes out of park later like a dream and with no pop. Gentle. As a car you want to last forever ought to.