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What are you doing that your parking brake is saving you in a parking lot (5)?

by mtreis86 3y ago

Kye 3y ago
Doesn't everyone drift into parking spots to get them before someone else?
- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Yeah, I gave up competing with you folks and switched to flying a helicopter instead - I now get to identify parking spots and drop into them like a brick, autorotating to a soft landing at the last second, before any of you fast and furious even realize the spot was free.
- adrianmonk 3y ago
  Of course. Because Elwood Blues showed us the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfwpHAwaME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfwpHAwaME
LeafItAlone 3y ago
Probably avoiding people driving in parking lots like they are streets with added rage for finding a parking spot. See, for example, any Costco parking lot
chaosprint 3y ago
It brakes before I reacted to some potential crashes. I might have noticed them but the brakes are really impressive.
- Kye 3y ago
  It sounds like you might mean something different by emergency brake than I think most non-Tesla drivers expect. I've always called the lever/pedal with a direct mechanical link to the brakes the emergency brake. Is this a thing on Teslas?
  - chaosprint 3y ago
    I had a warning on my Tesla app saying that the "emergency brake" has some issues and may restart to work on the next drive. the "emergency brake" is also shown on Ioniq 5 screen every time it gets triggered. So can "emergency brake" mean a different thing?
    - Kye 3y ago
      Words take on new definitions all the time, but you already saw multiple people in here (me included) assume you meant the original and much older meaning. It's good to define new and unconventional uses when it's not clear from context, and it isn't here if (like most people) you've never driven a car with this function.
    - Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
      There's a confusion of terms here. There's the "Emergency brake" (aka e-brake) which is a misnomer for what is actually the parking brake (not to be confused with the Park setting in an automatic transmission) or also called the hand brake for cars where this brake is a hand lever rather than an extra foot pedal. And then there's "automatic emergency braking", which is a computer-controlled automatic brake that gets applied when it detects an obstacle.
  - supermatt 3y ago
    Isnt that a parking brake? Ther is an "e-brake" which AFAIK is basically an electronically actuated parking brake. I thought an emergency brake was a technique, rather than a device? At least, thats how I understand it in the UK.
    - Kye 3y ago
      One of its functions is to allow you to slow down and maybe stop if the hydraulics fail. It's also called a parking brake, but that's an anachronism for cars with automatic since they have a parking mechanism. Using it to park is still a good idea to keep it functional so it's there in an emergency, and in case the parking mechanism fails. Some people find this out the hard way!
sathackr 3y ago
It's the collision avoidance braking when parking in close quarters. It applies the brakes automatically when you are within about 6 inches of an obstacle and moving towards it. Often false-fires when parallel parking in tight quarters or reversing with a bike rack attached. This is a different, ultrasound-based system that had been on cars for about a decade now. It has limited range. Not to be confused with the newer autonomous emergency braking systems that are radar-based(believe mm-wave radar) that has range more appropriate for road and highway speeds but has the limitation of not being able to differentiate stationary objects from terrain.

What are you doing that your parking brake is saving you in a parking lot (5)?

Kye 3y ago

Doesn't everyone drift into parking spots to get them before someone else?

TeMPOraL 3y ago
Yeah, I gave up competing with you folks and switched to flying a helicopter instead - I now get to identify parking spots and drop into them like a brick, autorotating to a soft landing at the last second, before any of you fast and furious even realize the spot was free.
adrianmonk 3y ago
Of course. Because Elwood Blues showed us the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfwpHAwaME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfwpHAwaME

LeafItAlone 3y ago

Probably avoiding people driving in parking lots like they are streets with added rage for finding a parking spot. See, for example, any Costco parking lot

chaosprint 3y ago

It brakes before I reacted to some potential crashes. I might have noticed them but the brakes are really impressive.

Kye 3y ago
It sounds like you might mean something different by emergency brake than I think most non-Tesla drivers expect. I've always called the lever/pedal with a direct mechanical link to the brakes the emergency brake. Is this a thing on Teslas?
- chaosprint 3y ago
  I had a warning on my Tesla app saying that the "emergency brake" has some issues and may restart to work on the next drive. the "emergency brake" is also shown on Ioniq 5 screen every time it gets triggered. So can "emergency brake" mean a different thing?
  - Kye 3y ago
    Words take on new definitions all the time, but you already saw multiple people in here (me included) assume you meant the original and much older meaning. It's good to define new and unconventional uses when it's not clear from context, and it isn't here if (like most people) you've never driven a car with this function.
  - Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
    There's a confusion of terms here. There's the "Emergency brake" (aka e-brake) which is a misnomer for what is actually the parking brake (not to be confused with the Park setting in an automatic transmission) or also called the hand brake for cars where this brake is a hand lever rather than an extra foot pedal. And then there's "automatic emergency braking", which is a computer-controlled automatic brake that gets applied when it detects an obstacle.
- supermatt 3y ago
  Isnt that a parking brake? Ther is an "e-brake" which AFAIK is basically an electronically actuated parking brake. I thought an emergency brake was a technique, rather than a device? At least, thats how I understand it in the UK.
  - Kye 3y ago
    One of its functions is to allow you to slow down and maybe stop if the hydraulics fail. It's also called a parking brake, but that's an anachronism for cars with automatic since they have a parking mechanism. Using it to park is still a good idea to keep it functional so it's there in an emergency, and in case the parking mechanism fails. Some people find this out the hard way!

sathackr 3y ago

It's the collision avoidance braking when parking in close quarters. It applies the brakes automatically when you are within about 6 inches of an obstacle and moving towards it. Often false-fires when parallel parking in tight quarters or reversing with a bike rack attached. This is a different, ultrasound-based system that had been on cars for about a decade now. It has limited range. Not to be confused with the newer autonomous emergency braking systems that are radar-based(believe mm-wave radar) that has range more appropriate for road and highway speeds but has the limitation of not being able to differentiate stationary objects from terrain.