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Can you put cybertruck in neutral? That's the SOP for ICE cars if accelerator is stuck.
by aynyc 2y ago
Can you put cybertruck in neutral? That's the SOP for ICE cars if accelerator is stuck.
- martin_ 2y agoNo but the brake pedal overrides the accelerator. Of course, EV’s accelerate fast so you likely don’t have much time to react
- hinkley 2y agoThe video in thread says park also overrides the accelerator.
- voidUpdate 2y agoElectric cars don't have a gearbox that you can put into neutral
- anticensor 2y agoThey have a reverser switch and neutral cuts off the power to the engine, forward excites windings in one way, reverse in the opposite way
- ksherlock 2y agoYes; there's no gearstalk but you can set p/r/n/d via the buttons on the overhead console, or on the touchscreen.
- lucianbr 2y agoGranted, this isn't a usual occurence so maybe not a reasonable use case for the design. But man, when accelerating at max power due to a glitch, you need to look at the touchscreen to find the right place to slide your finger to switch to neutral... I thougt having touch controls for climate was bad.
- rootusrootus 2y ago> That's the SOP for ICE cars if accelerator is stuck. That is totally wrong. Most/all cars won't even go into neutral if the throttle is pinned. Your best option, always, is to mash the brake pedal as hard as you possibly can. It will win every time, even if the car doesn't have throttle cutoff.
- ectospheno 2y agoCar and Driver disagrees with you regarding shifting to neutral. Can you provide additional info?
- hinkley 2y agoShifting into reverse on most modern automatic transmissions requires the brake pedal to be depressed at least a tiny bit. Neutral has no pin. In fact this is a somewhat little advertised boon to three point turns, in that you can go from reverse to drive without depressing the release button on floor mounted shifters or pulling the stalk in on steering wheel mounted units. You can just slap the car into D from R.