Shift-by-wire shift element integrated into a motor vehicle hand rest

A motor vehicle, comprising:

• a driver seat;
• a passenger seat;
• a central console between the driver seat and the passenger seat;
• a shift-by-wire gear selection controller;
• and
• a hand rest device, disposed in the central console, including
• a rest element extending along a transverse direction from a passenger side of the hand rest device to a driver side of the hand rest device opposite to the passenger side, having a rest surface facing in a vertical direction and configured to receive a hand of a user;
• and
• a shift element, disposed at a driver-side end of the rest element, between the rest surface and a lower side of the rest element opposite to the rest surface, providing input to the shift-by-wire gear selection controller, the shift element being configured to move along the transverse direction between a stowage position and a shift position with the shift element substantially recessed in the rest element in the stowage position and the shift element projecting further out of the rest element in the shift position than in the stowage position, the shift element being mounted immovably in a longitudinal direction when in the stowage position and movable one of unidirectionally and bidirectionally in the longitudinal direction when in the shift position.