05-17-2018, 05:21 AM
cbelt3 wrote:
Ah... So the brake pedal becomes the "Holy schmoley there is a problem" pedal. Yeah.. me no likey. I believe the Prius does it better... the brake pedal is for regenerative braking until you push a lot harder, then the actual brakes turn on. I would expect a lot of Leafs with the e-pedal will 'just not stop and crashed !', and they will stop having that feature. People need to be trained instinctively to use the right control. Adding complexity guarantees failure.
Sheesh... Stupid lack of human factors engineering.
Agreed. May the deity-of-your-choice forgive me for quoting my Ultra-Luddite Dad* on this: That sounds like the sort of thing that would be great as long as it works and works right, but a real pain in the butt when it stops working.
For me, the big question is "When do the brake lights come on?". Do they only light up if the "Holey Schmoley" pedal is pressed? In an ideal world drivers would follow at a safe distance and pay enough attention to the car in front of them to notice if it is slowing down even if that car's brake lights never light up, but unfortunately the world we live in is far from perfect and I can foresee a lot of Leafs (Leaves?) getting rear-ended by semi-attentive drivers because they slowed down with nary a flash of brake light.
*Seriously, he's trapped in 1959. He firmly believes to this day that "You shouldn't buy a car with automatic transmission, power steering, or power brakes, and especially not power windows or power door locks because they haven't worked all the bugs out of those systems yet and they quit working all the time". Probably true to an extent in 1959, no longer true by about 1969, and definitely not the case by 1979.