In a normal car, if you use the gear-shift and hence the engine to make the car go somewhat slower, the break lights do not come on. I have not (yet) driven a Tesla, so I do not know this, but I have always compared taking your foot off the accellerator to what i described above; using the engine to slow down the car. Hence; IMO there is still not any use for the break lights to come on. Au contraire; I would find it disturbing.
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Do brake lights always turn on with regen? (incl gap to other cars)
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In a normal car, if you use the gear-shift and hence the engine to make the car go somewhat slower, the break lights do not come on. I have not (yet) driven a Tesla, so I do not know this, but I have always compared taking your foot off the accellerator to what i described above; using the engine to slow down the car. Hence; IMO there is still not any use for the break lights to come on. Au contraire; I would find it disturbing.
Thanks ElSupreme - downshifting is the word I was looking for, and what I tried to compare to taking your foot off the accelerator.
MODS: I now see that this topic has been moved to another thread - please move my 2 posts.
That would drive me nuts!
A flash of brake lights hasn't saved me on a rural highway every time. One time I chose to disregard it. The brake light flash was very brief so I figured the vehicle way in front of me just turned off their cruise control or something as we started to decend down the other side of the pass. A few moments later I found myself airborne. Apparently it was a truck in front of me and he had just hit a black bear. He just kept going and didn't do anything to warn me. (We have idiots that are the inverse of yours, I suppose.) My car smelled soooo bad after that. I felt sorry for the service guy that got the job of cleaning and inspecting the underside of my car.
That experience just reinforced my aversion to turning off the cruise control by tapping the brake.
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Speak of the devil... A bear just wandered into my back yard and it isn't even garbage day.
ChadS
Last tank of gas: March 2009
spatterso911
P100DL - Raven
Except that everyone's car length is different and people can't judge how far 1960 inches is anyway. They now teach to use seconds: The car ahead passes some fixed mark and you count the seconds until you pass the same mark. Depending upon the school, some teach three and some teach four seconds.
gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
Yeah around here you get about three or four tenths of a second headway if you are lucky.
This was a young one. The momma bear that moved into our neighborhood a couple years ago had two cubs this spring.
The old guy that was on the Olympic Peninsula was toast.
Norbert
TSLA will win
If regen on the Model S is strong enough to replace braking (except when coming to a complete stop), then I don't see why lifting the foot off the accelerator (completely) should *not* trigger the brake lights that very second. It's not like they are for emergencies only. That's what that other button is for.
Tesla229
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After just a few days of driving my Model S, I find that I adapted fairly quickly to "managing" the accelerator pedal. You develop the feel fairly quickly, and after a while, it becomes second nature, and you'll find that you rarely have to actually use the brake pedal, except to avoid creep when at a stop. It's actually most efficient that way, since any application of the brakes during forward motion wastes energy that could be used for regen.
If regen on the Model S is strong enough to replace braking (except when coming to a complete stop), then I don't see why lifting the foot off the accelerator (completely) should *not* trigger the brake lights that very second. It's not like they are for emergencies only. That's what that other button is for.
The eject button?
Norbert
TSLA will win
The air suspension's "jump" button, for managing bears and other obstacles on the road...
dsmith2189
Active Member
I just wish you could tell when the brake lights are on. At night, no problem as you can see the red glow. In the daytime, though, no way to tell that I have figured out. I widh there were a light on the dasy or something to let you know.
Does anyone know if the situation is similar on the Model S?
Does anyone know if the situation is similar on the Model S?
Ah yes, I remember Speed Racer had one of those. I didn't realize that the Model S was THAT sophisticated.
Now we only need the "Ohh, ohh, oohh!" and the "Oh, Speedie!" sound effects.
At night I can see the red glow in my rear view mirror on my Roadster (easy to see on my Fusion Red, also any light colored car). During the day there is no way to tell... but that said, I've had enough night driving experience to have a pretty good idea of when it turns on and when it does not.
It would be nice to have a little glowing "brake light" dot somewhere on the instrument cluster, though.
