What Do YOU Call the Pedal on the Right?

[lawmangr]

Accelerator

 

[ODWms]

Accelerator.

 

[lolder]

The right pedal.

 

[Boourns]

With my old S and my previous 3 I still just called it the gas pedal. Since I took delivery of my performance 3 on Monday I now call it the "maniacal laughter" pedal.

 

[Jclboston]

The skinny pedal, to differentiate from the wider brake pedal.

 

[Taxvictim]

The gas pedal.

Language doesn't keep up with the times. We used to put our cars in a "car park," so we turned park into a verb and called it "parking the car." Then we started calling the places we put the cars "parking lots" instead of car parks. Older folks like me still "tape" our shows and "film" our kids. We ask, "are you sure you dialed the right number?" We "roll" down the windows on our Teslas.

 

[Centauri2]

Yeah, it's the gas pedal.

 

[Ren.OG]

"Get behind me pedal"

Gas pedal wasn't even appropriate for ICE vehicles but we still used it.
When you press on the Accelerator, it opens your intake to allow for more airflow.

 

[orntar]

My son came up with a good one...

Electric

 

[Candleflame]

"Get behind me pedal"

Gas pedal wasn't even appropriate for ICE vehicles but we still used it.
When you press on the Accelerator, it opens your intake to allow for more airflow.

On a diesel engine it does increase the fuel flow so gas pedal is appropriate.

 

[Fernand]

The MORE pedal.

I was designing a people mover controller and we were using decal lettering on the prototype enclosure. We ran out of letters to spell what we wanted, so the tech came up with MORE and LESS. Ok, someone asked, so what is "more"? The tech goes "more of what you bought this F***in' thing for".

 

[Ecoli]

You shall not pass!

 

[yyzbig6]

On a diesel engine it does increase the fuel flow so gas pedal is appropriate.

But diesel fuel is still a liquid. It only becomes gas after combustion.

 

[Kevy Baby]

Gas pedal wasn't even appropriate for ICE vehicles but we still used it.
When you press on the Accelerator, it opens your intake to allow for more airflow.

When you press on the accelerator in an ICE bucket, it also increase the flow of fuel

On a diesel engine it does increase the fuel flow so gas pedal is appropriate.

But diesel fuel is still a liquid. It only becomes gas after combustion.

When it was called the "gas" pedal, I (and I believe most) used it as short for gasoline (not "gas vs. liquid"). From that perspective, technically (and pedantically), calling it a "gas" pedal in a diesel vehicle is incorrect

And as a reminder, this is all frivolous conversation not to be taken very seriously

 

[holmgang]

Potentiometer

 

[Taxvictim]

Potentiometer

Or the Variable Resister.

 

[Taxvictim]

Gas pedal wasn't even appropriate for ICE vehicles but we still used it.
When you press on the Accelerator, it opens your intake to allow for more airflow.

Air is gas.

 

[jabloomf1230]

Is this a trick question? I call it "the pedal on the right."

 

[Maxpilot]

Thrust pedal.

 

[rpiotro]

The gas pedal.

Language doesn't keep up with the times. We used to put our cars in a "car park," so we turned park into a verb and called it "parking the car." Then we started calling the places we put the cars "parking lots" instead of car parks. Older folks like me still "tape" our shows and "film" our kids. We ask, "are you sure you dialed the right number?" We "roll" down the windows on our Teslas.

I lower the windows on mine. And at 70 years old I also stopped saying "tape this" or "film that" a long time ago. Also that pedal on the far right stopped being a throttle a some time ago. The throttle is controlled by computer now.