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No-one needs this, I predict accidents.

I hope insurance companies can determine which models have this and inexperienced drivers should pay more.

Just hope no-one kills anyone.



That's basically what insurance companies do. You're saying the equivalent of, I hope those programmers don't forget to declare their variables, or else their code won't work!


Surely less accidents. A common metric with road cars is 'TED' or Time Exposed to Danger, measuring how quickly you can accelerate to overtake a vehicle - the less time you are in the other lane, facing oncoming traffic, the better. Obviously very low 0-60 and 60-100 acceleration times are better, and make for lower TEDs.


Well that's a pretty silly way to look at this. No one needs a car that can go faster than 85mph, but pretty much every car on the market can break that limit. What makes this different?


my dad has a Tesla, I've driven it, and I think it is entirely different. The acceleration you see in a Tesla happens at times like, when you're trying to make a left turn in front of some other cars really fast; you're going from zero to about 30 miles in hour in less than a second, silently. If you happen to not have seen a pedestrian in the crosswalk as you do this, that pedestrian is dead; they will not hear you, and you will be through them before you even know it.

The acceleration of the Tesla presents a challenge to normal human reaction times on a routine basis. It encourages the driver to use the greater acceleration advantage to do things that would not be possible in more traditional cars, like zooming from a dead stop to a very high speed to get through turns or rapidly changing traffic blockages. All with zero engine noise emitted to the world around you.

I love the tesla but the acceleration / noise thing is definitely going to cause more accidents until some mitigation is applied (which I hope to be that the cars just drive themselves).


It takes a lot more effort to go more than 85mph (and the engine has to work differently depending on the environment).

Someone stepping on the pedal and being where a pedestrian is in 2 seconds could be very fatal for inexperienced drivers.


> Someone stepping on the pedal and being where a pedestrian is in 2 seconds could be very fatal for inexperienced drivers.

Probably far more likely to be fatal for the pedestrian


> No one needs a car that can go faster than 85mph

... until they REALLY do.




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