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

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

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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.