Another Tesla problem

Mbiviano wrote:

wnjj wrote:

NJRVer wrote:
Other thing to consider.
I did a job for a customer with a tesla and he told me he rarely, rarely ever uses his brake pedal.
He said the gas pedal works if push it you go, and if you let off of it the car will stop.

He said it took getting used to at first but now he barely needs the brake pedal.
Could be instance in OP's link where the driver was doing that and in a panic situation stomped on the gas pedal instead of the brake because they were so used to never using the brake.

You may be on to something. Changing basic driver controls should be approached with caution and only with significant study. Muscle memory is tough to reprogram, especially under a stressful situation where humans go back to basics.

The risk IME is going back to ICE and not having these features and forgetting to hold the brake ( or the many other auto features). But you still use the brake pedal in EVs during an emergency, nothing has changed. Anyone have one pedal driving on their tractors, same concept.

I have two pedal driving on one of my tractors; forward pedal, reverse pedal.
My lawn mower has one pedal; push forward, go forward; push backward, go reverse.

I can say I almost 99% of the time never touch the brake pedal on either of them.