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Sudden Unexpected Acceleration today
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Who has time for unwatched threads?was not watched. just front page thread
Supercharger v3 this Wednesday. Y reveal March 14th. Pickup reveal end of the year.
jeffro01
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As is ALWAYS the case, no, you're absolutely wrong. @wk057 has explained in detail why you're wrong. It's pretty obvious, and pointed out already by another poster, that your wife made a mistake and had her foot over the wrong peddle and was pressing the go button when she meant to press the stop button. Your wife simply doesn't want to admit her error out of pride. Okay, fine, but that doesn't change the reality... You can dispense with the "what if my kids" crap as well... Personal responsibility, try it on for size...
So yes, "this is total BS, it is driver error, there is now ay these cars do this, etc, etc."...
Jeff
gilscales
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gilscales
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When you start driving the car and every time for some reason there is no regen, all EV drivers who are so much used to regen will feel as if the car is accelerating when they lift their foot off the gas pedal. EV drivers expect the car to slow down when they take the foot of the pedal, and when it doesn't it gives an uneasy accelerating feeling.
Not saying thats what you experienced..
gilscales
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Yes I stand corrected, I guess it’s possible, I cannot rule that out, I did not feel it but it is still possible, I guess it would accelerate to the speed limit of the street if that happened and that would explain it.
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It's about to get tougher. Making claims of potentially disastrous behavior and then saying you didn't follow up is libelous. Go away !
My underline emphasis added...
All of this sounds like unintended TACC activation. And I speak from experience because it has happened to me! I was in a parking lot going about 7 mph when I bumped the TACC stalk down. The road next to the parking lot has a 35 mph limit, and TACC instantly tried to get me there in a packed, tight lot. It was a sudden acceleration, but not "floored" as you say. It was in fact, just like when TACC is applied below the speed limit. Like you, I quickly and calmly applied the brakes to solve it. Then I unclenched and assessed what happened. I realized that I'd hit the stalk.
By definition it was certainly "unintended acceleration." But it did not mysteriously happen, and has a logical, and avoidable explanation. I still say that no sort of cruise control should accelerate the car instantly from the point of engagement, but the car did not mysteriously accelerate on its own. Because of the TACC design that I don't like and I feel is stupidly dangerous... I inadvertently told it to accelerate to the speed limit of the road nearest to me.
Until such a time that a single instance of unexplainable UA can be proven, I just can't entertain that the cars are possessed. Those of us who find the brake pedal escape with nothing but a bruised ego. Those who don't find the brake pedal don't have such a good result.
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gilscales
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I gave my explanation of what I experienced, I was also made aware that I may have inadvertently engaged TACC which would give an explanation for what I experienced and that is something I never considered, I also stated it was mild and did not alarm me to the point of worrying, maybe you should sue me for my libelous comment as your obviously some arrogant attorney who makes his living off of others misfortunes.
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gilscales
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This seems likely the case the more I think about it as this makes the most sense, I could not tell that I more than likely tapped the stalk at the time so I came to the conclusion that it was not me but it definitely makes much more sense that I brushed the stalk just enough to engage TACC as the speed limit was 25 and I was traveling about 15