lol. my definition of "correctly" differs from tesla (and probably the engineering groups that recommend this).
I think it should be a setting so that you can make it come on only when you touch the brake pedal.
on twisty roads, this is especially annoying.
You are basically crying wolf, and other drivers will be desensitized to your brake lights, possibly when you really use them.
Perhaps a better version of your complaint is that Tesla has made the threshold for the brake lights too sensitive; but I would be curious how much observation went into drawing that conclusion.
Thinking it's more dangerous is odd as it's a great example of fail safe.
I think you misunderstand, or just don't understand at all, how regenerative braking or one-pedal driving works.
Manual transmissions (and sport shifting automatics) of most cars from 1904-2024 of sports coupes to trucks don't illuminate the brake lights when engine braking. Drivers following cars should be basing most decisions based on relative speed based on these existing.
If you were to follow behind me in my 2004 manual sports car or a 2021 automatic and only applied brakes when I did, you'd be speeding in my neighborhood and rear ending me, as I keep both in second gear and it keeps me at 20mph.
This isn't really a problem that other EVs have had. The brake lights come on when you slow down, just as if you had used the brake pedal. It's mostly as easy as triggering at a certain amount of kW generated.
Yes. I watched that Tech Connections video a while back. In that implementation, his car would slow down too quickly without brake lights. I think it would get down to something like 15 mph from 55 before they'd come on, yet the deceleration was at least as rapid as casual braking.
I agree with the Tech Connections example; I have no comment on other EVs.
But really, there should just be a standard - it seems obvious and easy for EVs to get it right: If deceleration is > X m/s^2, then brake lights are on.
I quickly learned to force the break lights and started to follow this issue closely. That's how I became aware of the number.
How the EU saddled for 1.3 and not 1.2 or 1.4 is beyond my knowledge.
It never occurred to me that I might want my ICE to do the same, but I suppose it would be helpful if I'm heading downhill and downshift without touching the brake.
> Brake lights on your electric car will automatically illuminate when you decelerate the vehicle and will remain on when the vehicle fully stops.
Mmmm, nothing better than a dark, rainy evening in November in a city after a long day at work and you're stuck for minutes on end right behind a car with red lights burning into your retinas. Wankers.
Thanks engineer bastards.