Chrysler's trying it all over again with their "turn the dial" transmission control. One of the basic rules of interface design is that the larger the effect of the button on the system the bigger and more attention grabbing you make it (like in an industrial machine where you have a big red button that requires a lot of force to activate and makes an impressive sound when you hit it and a green one that behaves similarly). The push button shifter and knob shifter both violate that.

A lot of automatic transmissions in large trucks and buses still use pushbutton shifters.