Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

  • TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 month ago

    No way bro, single pedal driving is amazing. There’s also voice commands and you can hotkey stuff to the left scroll wheel (I use it for toggling chill/performance mode), and you can put it in autopilot if you really gotta use the touchscreen - but how often do you need to do something not covered by voice commands steering buttons?

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      29 days ago

      No way bro, single pedal driving is amazing.

      What’s amazing about it? Seems intuitive unintuitive as hell but I’ve never actually experienced it personally. How do you control how fast you stop or just coast? What if the electronics fail? My car the brakes are mechanically connected to the pedal, if the power brakes go out I can still brake without them (although it is much more difficult).

      edit: that was supposed to say UNintuitive

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        1 month ago

        I have a Mach-E and drive exclusively in one pedal mode. With my car you can still use the brake if you want. But honestly once you adjust to it, it becomes very instinctive to let it accelerate and decelerate based on the traffic patterns around you.

        Now, if someone’s doing some stupid shit in Seattle during rush hour traffic I end up using the brake more but for 95% of my daily driving I’m just using the one pedal.

        It’s honestly more jarring going back to driving my truck with a traditional setup than it was adjusting to the one pedal setup.

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          1 month ago

          Like a lot of things about cars today (your bright-ass lights, size making it impossible to see around you, that fucking beeping) this is annoying for those around you because the brake lights don’t go on your car just suddenly decelerates.

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            1 month ago

            If you’re reading the brake lights on the car directly in front of you as an indicator to slow down, you have already lost the plot.

            A competent driver is actively driving a minimum of half a mile ahead of themselves with more than adequate distance between the vehicle directly in front of them to allow a response to changing road conditions.

            The car doesn’t suddenly decelerate unless the driver completely pulls their foot from the pedal. This sounds like a skill issue on both sides.