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Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds (www.rollingstone.com)

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Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Hard disagree on this one. The regenerative braking has a learning curve yes, but the pros outweigh the cons imo. When you brake (in a traditional car or an EV), you are wearing out yor brake pads, turning friction into heat. Done right, renerative braking means almost all energy is captured back, and even lower maintenance by not bothering the brake pad.

It takes getting used to, you hate it at first, which is why tesla has an option to disable it, but there is a reason why most people who own Teslas use it, and other EVs are getting it as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

The complaint isn't that regeneration is bad, because that's been part of any battery vehicle since the first Prius in 1997. The complaint is that while Toyota solved this problem before much of Lemmy's userbase was born, only Elon decided to make the car behave fucking weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Regenerative braking is good thing, yes .But implementing it as one pedal driving is terrible. Other OEMs like Ford or VW blend regenerative braking into the brake pedal of their EVs such that it feels exactly like a normal car. The friction pads are there for either emergency braking or for bringing the car to a final stop after slowing down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I drive my Mach-E exclusively in 1-pedal. It's a pretty quick transition.

Probably easiest to make an analogy to the transition to analog sticks for gaming.

It was a bit difficult but, once you get the nuance, it's pretty game changing.