there's very rarely a good reason to use full throttle from a dead stop on public roads. if I want to get in front of someone at a traffic light, about half-ope

there's very rarely a good reason to use full throttle from a dead stop on public roads. if I want to get in front of someone at a traffic light, about half-open throttle is all I need to do it. if the other driver resists, it's wiser to find a slot behind them instead. I actually find the 30-50 and 50-70 tests that car and driver runs to be pretty interesting for a daily driver. in a manual it shows what kind of performance you can expect merging / changing lanes if you're too lazy to downshift, and in an automatic it captures how well the transmission responds to a sudden application of the throttle while cruising. these figures strike me as a lot more realistic than flooring it from a dead stop. many cars are traction limited in the lower gears anyway. I do understand some people simply enjoy accelerating hard in a straight line, and I don't begrudge them that. I'm just disappointed by the tradeoffs that are made to hit that headline figure.