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How could a vehicle that may not disengage the accelerator when the brake is applied be allowed on the road????? And who at Tesla thought this was a perfectly fine feature to have?
Do you know of any vehicles that do automatically disengage the accelerator for you when you press the brakes? It sounds like the driver was pushing both the brake and accelerator pedals at the same time. Not to defend Tesla, but this one seems like it could be the owner's fault
The original post does not mention if he was applying the brake with the other foot while still depressing the accelerator, but it seems like the accelerator on the CT is monitored by software that then controls the motors. It would explain why it kept the motors going as the brake was used. Of course, if he was using one foot to brake and the other to press the accelerator, this is totally his fault.
Is there any other plausible explanation? I don't understand what you were referring to here:
How could a vehicle that may not disengage the accelerator when the brake is applied be allowed on the road?????
I mean.
If you delete enough people in the government department meant to check / stop these vehicle safety issues....
This came out before that started happening though?
Only by a few months... now you know why musk was very desperate to get that position...
That’s a big reason for the “unintended acceleration” issue that plagued older Toyotas and Audis.
Nah that's been proven as bullshit. In ICE vehicles brakes will always win vs engine torque. Just think; how quickly does your car go from 0-60, and how quickly can it go from 60-0? Brakes are just more powerful than ICE engines in production cars. They have to be to meet braking distance regulations. So, even with the accelerator down and engine going full throttle, brakes should still stop a car.
Now I'm not sure about electric cars, some of them have incredible torque and are designed to use regenerative braking. The disk brakes might just be supplemental and not strong enough.
If I was the owner I’d be reaching out to my state Attorney General at this point, and providing recordings of all communications with Tesla.
If you were the owner you wouldn't be intelligent enough to think of this.
Maybe they don’t teach this anymore but when I took drivers ed we were taught to use the left foot lightly on the brake after going through a puddle to dry the brakes… I didn’t think cars were supposed to just ignore the gas pedal when the brakes are applied.
You should never be using your left foot on the pedals. Also, disk brakes always are making light contact, so you have zero reason to "dry" them.
You should never be using your left foot on the pedals.
Unless you are driving a manual transmission.
Yeah, no. Still a terrible idea.
You have clearly never driven a manual transmission, nor have the slightest idea how to. It is not possible to operate a manual transmission without using both feet on the pedals.
Please don't comment authoritatively about things you know nothing about. It just makes us all a little bit worse off.
You use the left foot on the clutch only. The other one alternates between the two pedals. I'm likely older than you are and have driven manual vehicles all my life.
Well done on your comment.
That's for an extremely specific use case though.
Yeah they taught that when I took driver's ed in 1996. I don't know if it applies anymore.
Dont most vehicles do that though? I may only be driving old vehicles.
Most vehicle disengage the accelerator when you take your foot off the gas and terrain isn't a factor.
And terrain should never be a factor on if taking your foot off the accelerator disengages acceleration, and if cruise control is active, pressing the brakes should disengage acceleration immediately.
Acceleration is different than the accelerator. Acceleration can happen from going down a hill, which is why the person above stated it that way.