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At least the wheels falling off slow the car down.

• ripjaygn 3y ago
  At least you can steer the car with unintentional acceleration, unlike with wheels falling off.
  • toast0 3y ago
    You can steer as long as you've got three wheels. Not as well as with four of course. With a modern brake system, you should have some braking power too. I know someone who lost a wheel on an 1965 truck with a single chamber brake cylinder, so there was no pressure in the system as brake parts fell off with the wheel.
  • bingbingbing777 3y ago
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    • ripjaygn 3y ago
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      • bingbingbing777 3y ago
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        • ripjaygn 3y ago
          Please don't make unfounded assertions.
      • dang 3y ago
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    • dang 3y ago
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• chrisbolt 3y ago
  If you press both the accelerator and brake in a Tesla, it slows the car down and shows a message in the instrument cluster that both pedals are pressed: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/while-breaking-if-you-get-the-error-message-both-pedals-pressed-motor-power-removed.163775/ https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/while-breaking-if-yo...