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Yea the Tesla brakes work exactly how you would want. As soon as you start decelerating, even w/ regen, the lights kick in. Not sure how Hyundai messed it up af
by cevn 3y ago
Yea the Tesla brakes work exactly how you would want. As soon as you start decelerating, even w/ regen, the lights kick in. Not sure how Hyundai messed it up after having an example..
- notdang 3y agoHyundai/Kia will do the minimum necessary to comply with the local laws.
- bigmattystyles 3y agoInteresting, would seem more efficient to comply with as many laws as possible that don't clash and have one configuration, only tweaking for local oddities.
- mrguyorama 3y agoTheir business is shaving pennies, hence why they didn't install immobilizers in states that didn't require them, in order to save a few bucks per car.
- kylecordes 3y agoI have a complaint about Tesla on this one. In Europe they ship vastly better tail lights with a different color for turn signals. As I understand, the superior signals are acceptable, though not preferred, by US standards. But Tesla makes a separate, different, worse part to use in the US, rather than giving us the good stuff also and reducing their manufacturing variation.
- darkwater 3y agoAs an European I always wondered about why in the US they have red turn signals. It seems...odd, so to speak?
- fragmede 3y agoSuburban and Americans aren't so good at living with the level of aggression that city driving requires, and so prefer having clearly delineated left turn time to something perceived as fighting in traffic.
- bombcar 3y agoIt’s cheaper (or was) - early cars had one red light on each side and could blink it for a turn signal, but it was also the brake. Later a second light was added for the taillight but they did it in the same bulb.
- darkwater 3y agoThanks for the explanation! It still seems odd to me that it hasn't been regulated somehow, having 2 different colors for 2 different actions is safer.
- tyingq 3y agoIt's a pattern for Hyundai/Kia. The whole thing with "no anti-theft immobilizers" is only where it's not mandated.
- MattGrommes 3y agoMy 2020 Bolt does the right thing also. I only wish the lights would stay on while I'm stopped at a light but that's minor.
- mrguyorama 3y agoDo you not hold the brake when you are stopped? I know electric cars don't have to creep like an automatic ICE, but I drive stick and still hold the brake at a stop because not randomly drifting forward or backward is safer and it also is important in the rare case of getting rear ended
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoI don't know about GM, but in a Tesla, if you have 1-pedal driving enabled, then it automatically holds the brake. And the brake lights stay on. > I know electric cars don't have to creep like an automatic ICE They don't have to, but funny enough, it's an option in a Tesla. My wife uses it simply because it's what she's used to.