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Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminded me of this Technology Connections video, in which the dude explained (among other brake-light related things) how some law allows electric vehicles to get away with not using their brake lights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ
JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I feel like if your car is doing anything to actively slow itself down (as in apart from just cruising) it should turn the brake lights on.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah, just have an accelerometer that triggers them
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Or just have it come on whenever you lift off the accelerator.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah my electric 208 is kinda like that (if I remember the video well, watched it a while ago) but since it’s Europe there actually is a regulation about how much a car can decelerate before break lights come on, so instead of making the system turn the lights on they throttle how much it can decelerate for recharge and still makes you use the break to use full regen (and eventually the actual brakes, of course). So it’s not a real “one pedal driving”.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
One pedal driving just sounds like motion sickness city.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Nah not at all tbh, you can get very smooth deceleration with it and it doesn’t feel floaty or whatever, it does take a tiny adjustment to how you drive, you don’t coast anymore but rather you can finely control your deceleration by how much you lift the accelerator, it’s quite nice to be honest I always drive it in that mode (even if it’s not real one pedal).
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I’ll be the judge of that once I’m a passenger in such a scenario.