• psud@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    “surprise, your brakes are out!”

    That really doesn’t happen from wear. Brakes only surprise fail on long descents where the driver doesn’t use engine braking. If brakes fail like that you have the hand brake/e-brake

    EVs of course use regen braking almost always in that situation - though they can’t when their battery is full - my car expects to arrive at the coast at 20% battery, at the top of the coastal mountain range it’s at 15%, but at the beach it has regenerated to 20%

    The rest I generally agree. We need better data, especially better data from someone other than Tesla.