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@hybridbear -- you may or may not consider yourself a hypermiler (I'm personally am not one either), but your driving technique and achieving such a low average wH/mile rating indicates you drive in a manner which is unusual. Not saying it is bad or good, just unusual. The smooth, slow acceleration that achieves very low energy utilization is typically one that is MUCH slower than an average car acceleration path (electric or ICE) for common traffic (I'm not talking about teenagers flooring a car). By the same token, the very slow deceleration path you describe implies starting to decelerate MUCH farther away from the traffic light, stopped traffic than is normal and what most traffic does. Yes, this results in very low energy utilization with very shallow acceleration/deceleration curves, but it also is one that (to some extent) impedes other traffic because it is so different than what the majority of traffic is doing. Again, I'm not judging you or saying that is a bad thing, but I would certainly describe your driving technique as one which is (a) not normal and (b) tending towards the hypermiling/extremely efficient (from a fuel/energy savings perspective) end of the spectrum. Bottom line (getting back to the point about brake light application) is that your driving technique is most certainly an edge case and not what the current brake light implementation is set up for. To be effective given your technique, the brake lights would have to come on basically whenever regen activated and you'd have brake lights coming on all of the time which would really cause traffic behind you to accordion...
@hybridbear -- you may or may not consider yourself a hypermiler (I'm personally am not one either), but your driving technique and achieving such a low average wH/mile rating indicates you drive in a manner which is unusual. Not saying it is bad or good, just unusual. The smooth, slow acceleration that achieves very low energy utilization is typically one that is MUCH slower than an average car acceleration path (electric or ICE) for common traffic (I'm not talking about teenagers flooring a car). By the same token, the very slow deceleration path you describe implies starting to decelerate MUCH farther away from the traffic light, stopped traffic than is normal and what most traffic does. Yes, this results in very low energy utilization with very shallow acceleration/deceleration curves, but it also is one that (to some extent) impedes other traffic because it is so different than what the majority of traffic is doing. Again, I'm not judging you or saying that is a bad thing, but I would certainly describe your driving technique as one which is (a) not normal and (b) tending towards the hypermiling/extremely efficient (from a fuel/energy savings perspective) end of the spectrum. Bottom line (getting back to the point about brake light application) is that your driving technique is most certainly an edge case and not what the current brake light implementation is set up for. To be effective given your technique, the brake lights would have to come on basically whenever regen activated and you'd have brake lights coming on all of the time which would really cause traffic behind you to accordion...
