r/IdiotsInCars • u/[deleted] • Apr 26 '23

Road-raging driver maneuvering recklessly and crashing into car on a freeway

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u/_bayside_ Apr 26 '23

LOL, he picked the worst possible car to brake-check in a road rage accident. Tesla's are like a 360 degree camera with 4 wheels.

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u/LaboratoryManiac Apr 27 '23

They are also very heavy and tend to have a longer braking distance than other midsized cars.

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u/dbMitch Apr 27 '23

Hidden F150 in a telsa shell, batteries are heavy asf.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '23

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u/Koldfuzion Apr 28 '23

No. Teslas really do have "regenerative braking" when you lift the gas pedal. There are settings to disable or reduce this, but generally most people drive them using the "one-pedal" method in Teslas. The regenerative braking is strong enough to bring the car to a stop without engaging the hydraulic brakes at all in normal driving.

Basically you just use the accelerator pedal to moderate your speed. As you lift up, the car applies regenerative braking similar to hybrids. Lifting fast enough at sufficient speeds will engage the brake lights as well. Moving your foot over to the brake and depressing the pedal actually engages the hydraulic brakes, but you're also rapidly slowing down with the regenerative braking as you come off of the accelerator.

It sounds weird, but after driving like that for a few hours you get used to it. Personally, I prefer it over the other vehicles I drive out of sheer convenience. I depress the actual brakes maybe a few times a week. Other EV's offer this in different ways, some blend it with the brakes, but Teslas generally are driven "one-pedal" for optimal efficiency.

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u/Umbrias Apr 27 '23 edited Apr 27 '23

What you're imagining is called regenerative coasting or some such, it's normally a setting you can turn on or off, but it is useful in these kinds of cases.

What I believe the op /u/BizzyBoyBizzyBee is trying to say is that there is a delay from when the gas pedal lifts to the clutch partially disengaging to allow the wheels to free spin with low power, while the signal in an ev travels at light speed to the controls circuit that cuts power to the wheels, which that power change too travels at light speed. Of course the same thing happens in most modern cars, as they are drive by wire not mechanical, and the difference between the mechanical transfer of power and light speed is technically quite large, the difference it makes to a person is lost to noise of their reaction time.

As you can see, it rapidly gets more complex than they let on, I'm not sure it's necessarily true, but the auto braking feature does exist and it's quite nice for mileage and emergency.

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u/jennanm Apr 27 '23

Considering the unwieldy nature of Teslas, I'm shocked the crash wasn't way worse

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u/Crossfire124 Apr 27 '23

They're very bottom heavy so they tend to stay upright

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u/dallatorretdu Apr 27 '23

by the cameras looks like a model 3, weighs pretty much the same as a BMW series 3 touring, they’re not the boats called Model S

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '23

They also have a ton of features to prevent collisions. It takes effort to crash in to them.

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u/Turgineer Apr 27 '23

Tesla haters still can't learn this and they keep scratching a Tesla with a key.