Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency.

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It doesn’t do that. I don’t think there is any vehicle that actually has only one pedal. There’s still a brake you can use any time.

  One pedal driving simply means the accelerator also slows the car as you let it up, so you may only need that one pedal on a lot of driving. This also means that standard brake pads and calipers can last much longer, since they don’t need to be used as often

  This is popular in electric vehicles because regenerative braking makes it convenient.

  • As you speed up, the battery feeds power to the motor to accelerate.
  • As you slow down the motor drags on your forward motion, generating electricity to feed back into the battery

  While you could have the brake pedal do both, now you’d be adding complexity to the braking system, making it less reliable

  source