| ▲ | lmm 15 hours ago |
| Electric cars are mostly drive-by-wire, so if the same driver input results in accelerating faster in an EV then I'd say that's the car's responsibility. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 15 hours ago | parent [-] |
| That makes no sense. Every car on the road, regardless of power source, has what amounts to an infinitely adjustable pedal controlling acceleration. The relationship between pedal input and actual acceleration varies between cars, and can vary even on the same car in different drive modes. How fast you accelerate is 100% under your own control. |
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| ▲ | lmm 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you put effort into controlling it, sure. Most people have other priorities, they push the pedal when they want to go and they leave it to the car to accelerate at a reasonable speed when they do. Mass-market cars should be built for the population that exists, and that means having a default accelerator-response that does sensible things for the way that normal people normally use the accelerator. | | |
| ▲ | Toutouxc 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Most people ... push the pedal when they want to go and they leave it to the car to accelerate at a reasonable speed when they do. I'm going to need a source for that. There are literally tens of thousands of accelerator pedal types, with different hinges, different travel, different stiffness and different engines with different ECUs and different drive modes attached to them. There's no one default way to step on the gas that people would just pull out of muscle memory. |
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