Rod type electronic gear shifter and automobile

The invention discloses a rod type electronic gear shifter and an automobile. The rod type electronic gear shifter comprises a shifting rod component, a sensor module, an electronic control unit and M/S gear buttons; the shifting rod component is in a five-position mono-stability form; when the shifting rod component is pulled to a non-stable position and is released, the shifting rod component can be automatically returned to a stable position; the sensor module is used for detecting the pulling angle or position of the shifting rod component and transmitting the pulling angle or position tothe electronic control unit; the electronic control unit is used for acquiring a current gear signal of the overall automobile from a transmission control unit, acquiring a braking signal from a brakemodule, acquiring an input signal of a driver from the sensor module and the M/S gear buttons and calculating a target gear and sending the target gear to the transmission control unit according to preset rules and based on t