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manarth 8 hours ago  [ - ]

I've used left-foot-braking in my (ICE-powered) daily driver for years.

Regenerative braking is very different to taking your foot off the accelerator in a conventional ICE car, it's much more powerful a stopping force than traditional engine-braking.

I understand the rationale for moving the pedal to illustrate the amount of "braking" force. I'll admit I'm not exactly a typical driver though.

eptcyka 5 hours ago  [ - ]

Why not move the gas pedal too, when using cruise control then?

manarth 5 hours ago  [ - ]

    > "Why not move the gas pedal too?"
I'd support that. It does feel unusual in most cars' cruise control that you can push the accelerator to three-quarters of its travel before you start to accelerate (e.g. if cruise control is at 50–60mph).

If you push the gas pedal, you'd expect to go faster, wouldn't you?

creaturemachine 4 hours ago  [ - ]

They used to, but not by design. Back when throttles were still cabled I could feel the cruise control doing its thing by lightly resting on the pedal.