News about Tesla, especially negative news, will always rush to the hot search list at the first time.
Yes, for a brand like Tesla, this is something it has to go through. In fact, apple mobile phones more than a decade ago also had similar treatment. That's what innovators have to deal with.
Recently, the news of a Tesla accident blew up the Internet, there was a Tesla owner on the highway experienced a thrilling moment, the vehicle on the highway normal driving, but the vehicle suddenly accelerated to 170 kilometers per hour, resulting in the rear-end of a tank 300, and caused four cars to rear-end consecutively, and Tesla was seriously damaged.
According to the owner's feedback, the owner tried to brake after the vehicle accelerated, but ran for 1 kilometer at high speed, and the brake did not respond at all.
In this regard, Tesla also announced the official response at the first time, Tesla said that after multi-party comparison and analysis, and the owner of the car himself finally communicated and verified, the time is caused by the driver stepping on the accelerator pedal.
To put it simply, it was the owner who stepped on the accelerator as a brake. This situation is not uncommon for novice drivers, to say a bitter thing, my daughter-in-law's first car that year, is to use the brake as the accelerator to step on, directly rear-end the car in front.
Therefore, for this matter, the most likely situation is indeed that the driver has stepped on the accelerator as a brake. Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, electric vehicles such as Tesla that use single-pedal mode, the probability of this situation will indeed be higher.
Single pedal annoying
We all know that traditional cars have at least two pedals, one acceleration pedal and one deceleration pedal, while manual models will have one more clutch pedal. The accelerator pedal and deceleration pedal are independent of each other and do not interfere with each other.
In the early years, Toyota's models were not equipped with a brake priority system, resulting in the throttle pedal being stuck, the vehicle could not be stopped, and there was a big public relations incident.
Subsequently, Toyota launched a large-scale recall and conveniently "pitted" the Japanese car.
The single-pedal mode that now appears on electric vehicles is a driving method that has evolved with the use of braking energy recovery systems.
It is not that electric vehicles with single pedal mode like Tesla have only one pedal, but under the action of the brake energy recovery system, the primary and secondary relationship between braking and acceleration pedals has changed to a certain extent.
When the accelerator pedal is stepped on, the vehicle shows an accelerated state, and when the accelerator pedal moves towards the released stroke, the vehicle starts the braking energy recovery to achieve the effect of deceleration. The brake pedal, on the other hand, is significantly reduced in most cases.
Thanks to the use of the single pedal mode, the braking energy recovery system of electric vehicles can also be used efficiently. And in single-pedal mode, the braking of the electric vehicle is generated by the regenerative braking system, and the pressure on the braking system is also less.
It can be understood that the recovery of braking energy in the single-pedal mode is equivalent to providing two sets of braking systems for electric vehicles, and the braking of the single-pedal mode is often used.
As mentioned earlier, the single-pedal mode gives the electric car two braking systems. In this way, the electric vehicle in the single-pedal mode is driving a little different from the traditional fuel vehicle.
For example, when we drive a fuel vehicle, we will develop a habit of putting our feet on the brakes without stepping on the accelerator, and at the same time use the gap between the two pedals of accelerator acceleration and brake deceleration to allow the vehicle to enter a state of autonomous coasting.
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Putting your foot on the brake pedal when you're not accelerating, even if there's an emergency, the driver subconsciously goes down with one foot, braking rather than accelerating.
However, in the single pedal mode, such a driving mode does not exist, and the downward and loose strokes of the accelerator pedal correspond to the acceleration and braking modes, which shortens the stage of the vehicle's braking and coasting.
In single-pedal mode, the electric car encounters a red light in front of it, and the driving method is to keep stepping on the accelerator pedal, but control the speed by the different strokes under the accelerator pedal.
If the throttle is directly released like a traditional fuel vehicle, then the electric vehicle responds to a foot of braking.
The habit of putting your foot on the brake without stepping on the accelerator, in a single-pedal mode electric car, is not possible.
For drivers who are driving an electric vehicle for the first time, this is indeed a process that needs to be adapted.
Space is lost
Single pedal mode is more prone to accidents? It's a kind of spatial obsession!
The foot feel of the two pedals of a traditional car is completely different, and the brake pedal is obviously less natural to step on, but the acceleration pedal will be more comfortable.
Now it has become a single pedal mode, so the release and stepping of the throttle is a very comfortable and natural process.
The reason why a novice turns the throttle into a brake is because the novice does not have a muscular memory of the brake pedal. In the case of panic, it is natural to have to step on which pedal you want.
The current single pedal mode is actually such a situation, driving a single pedal mode vehicle for a long time, the driver is easy to form a muscle memory, between the two forces of the acceleration pedal and the brake pedal, forget the existence of the brake pedal.
Especially in the moment when an emergency occurs during a long driving, muscle memory can cause the driver to guess the wrong pedal.
In flight, there is a very serious accident syndrome called space maze, which probably means that the pilot cannot distinguish between blue sky and land during the flight process, and cannot judge the attitude of flight.
In single-pedal mode, the driver's confusion between the throttle and the brakes is similar to this spatial confusion.
In fact, we occasionally happen when we are driving, at a sloped intersection, the car in the next lane moves slowly, you will mistakenly believe that your car is slipping, and then press the brake pedal hard.
Although the probability of this happening is not high, it will definitely happen.
Guessing the wrong pedal in single-pedal mode is actually a kind of spatial confusion, even if it is only a very short appearance, it is enough to make a Tesla suddenly accelerate.
Because, at this time, the driver will not believe that he guessed the wrong pedal. So, I personally highly recommend Tesla to cancel the single pedal mode, it's really too unfriendly!