BEV mating season ?

[Mart]

"unintended acceleration" was quite a common cause of low speed parking accidents with early Teslas - was even a lawsuit attempted for supposed faulty accelerator pedals. But it was always user error.

There is now a setting in the Tesla software to enable "obstacle aware acceleration" - ie at low speeds it will use the parking assist to limit acceleration and even apply the brakes to stop people yeeting themselves into parked vehicles.

Maybe the "sport/rocket" setting or whatever it is called could be automatically disabled after a few moments manoeuvring?

It's always been intresting to see the average age for 'unintended acceleration'. In short, older people seem to own cars with 'the problem', v's young drivers. I suspect my time is coming.

That's a good function from Tesla. I'm reminded of a video one owner posted, different scenario, but also quite clever - they were waiting at a red light at a large US intersection. I think they were in the middle of 3 lanes, with a car to their left. The lights went green and they started to accelerate across the intersection, but the car was sluggish, they pressed the accelerator harder, but it remained very sluggish, then a car from the left shoots across their nose, having run the red light.

[Stinsy]

A friend of mine, his father, suffered an "unintended acceleration" event on Saturday. The father suffered a broken wrist and 3x broken ribs but is otherwise still the same indignant, stubborn, old man he'd been before the accident. The front wall of the neighbour's house isn't in as good a shape!

[John_S]

I am sure that there is a market for less powerful, but still long range, EVs. Not least because they should be cheaper to insure. Who actually needs 0-60 mph in 3 or 4 seconds?

Also, 4WD versions of ICE cars tended to have the same engine as the 2WD and had the advantage of better traction etc often with a small performance penalty because of increased weight. Often chosen by people living or working in the countryside or hilly terrain.

Now 4WD EVs have two motors and much higher performance and are not well matched to those in the above group.

[Oliver90owner]

Mine is not a volvo, but creeps along at about the Morrisons car park speed limit (usually 5mph?) without any need for any loud pedal input - unless in i-pedal, which I don’t use very often.

Also, I generally stop without using the brake pedal, too. Car park speed limits are useful at times, but very few abide by them.