Other brands might be smart enough to use the friction breaks a bit more (or a lot more, which would not be that smart).
Then again, even the original Prius, the very model of quality and reliability, could get rusty brakes if driven exclusively in very flat areas.
Afaik the newer cars, at least the current model Y, have the blinker stalk again. Even Tesla had to concede that the yoke/joke steering wheel was at the very least not acceptable to too many customers.
The door handles are terrible, too. At least in the front you get a lever to open the door from the inside in case of a power failure (normal opening is with a button). The rear doors only have a small pull wire under a hidden hatch in the door pockets. Its bad enough that they didn’t integrate the electronic and mechanical opening in the front for some reason, but the rear is just utter madness. Someone should make them issue a recall and fix all the crazy doors.
LOL 😋 I live in Denmark a country that is mostly flat, our highest “mountain” is a hill you can “climb” in half an hour.
And I live in the flattest part of the country. I just recently figured out that to brake without the regenerative braking, I have to put the car in Neutral. Regenerative breaking does not have a setting to disable it.
I think the blinker stalk may have become law here in EU, the directive for the door handles are AFAIK passed, but has a grace period, so China came first with making the door handles illegal, passing the law later, but enforcing it sooner. Kudos to China on that one.
I think in USA the department to make these regulations was closed by Elon Musk, in a very legal and very beautiful cooperation between government and private efficiency, as Trump would probably put it. 🤡
Other brands might be smart enough to use the friction breaks a bit more (or a lot more, which would not be that smart).
Then again, even the original Prius, the very model of quality and reliability, could get rusty brakes if driven exclusively in very flat areas.
Afaik the newer cars, at least the current model Y, have the blinker stalk again. Even Tesla had to concede that the yoke/joke steering wheel was at the very least not acceptable to too many customers.
The door handles are terrible, too. At least in the front you get a lever to open the door from the inside in case of a power failure (normal opening is with a button). The rear doors only have a small pull wire under a hidden hatch in the door pockets. Its bad enough that they didn’t integrate the electronic and mechanical opening in the front for some reason, but the rear is just utter madness. Someone should make them issue a recall and fix all the crazy doors.
LOL 😋 I live in Denmark a country that is mostly flat, our highest “mountain” is a hill you can “climb” in half an hour.
And I live in the flattest part of the country. I just recently figured out that to brake without the regenerative braking, I have to put the car in Neutral. Regenerative breaking does not have a setting to disable it.
I think the blinker stalk may have become law here in EU, the directive for the door handles are AFAIK passed, but has a grace period, so China came first with making the door handles illegal, passing the law later, but enforcing it sooner. Kudos to China on that one.
I think in USA the department to make these regulations was closed by Elon Musk, in a very legal and very beautiful cooperation between government and private efficiency, as Trump would probably put it. 🤡