One Pedal Foot Exhaustion

[mabowden]

No, not at all. I much prefer one pedal driving now that I have experienced it.

When I go to drive my wife's car now it feels like so much work.

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[RBR1S]

One foot driving now = I only have to use the accelerator because no one is in my way.


I'm sure it's going to take me a long time to get used to it because I coast a LOT now. Literally any chance I get, down hill, coming up to a light, to avoid hitting my brakes in traffic, you named it.

I'm sure somewhere there is an engineer that thinks they tested coasting vs regen for longer/better mileage. I want that engineer to go with me driving. Just so I can reassure myself, cause I know this is an argument I won't win.

 

[GWNavigator]

No, not at all. I currently am waiting from my R1S, so my experience is with a Tesla Y. Overall, after driving it for a year, it is much less work with one pedal driving:

1. Regular city driving offers rest and 'foot freedom' at every stoplight - no need to keep my foot on the brake (or shift into Park) while waiting for the light to change.

2. In busy stop and go traffic, no need to constantly move foot from accelerator to brake, with delay in-between.

3. In urban residential areas, with lots of stop signs/intersections, the car stops itself more smoothly/consistantly at stop signs. It coasts to a gentle stop while my right foot takes a rest.

4. Any need/opportunity to coast = opportunity to engage ACC even if it is for a short period of time. I do this all the time with my Tesla with the flick of my right hand.

5. Going from one-pedal back to a regular SUV - you get the now unsettling feeling that you are in a huge hurdling mass of steel that will demolish anything in it's path unless you actively slow the car down with (hopefully) a good set of brakes. I more appreciate the passive slowing/stopping when you are not actively doing anything.

 

[Acoustic71]

No, not at all. I much prefer one pedal driving now that I have experienced it.

When I go to drive my wife's car now it feels like so much work.

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[jjwolf120]

Interesting idea but daily downtown stop-and-go traffic makes it challenging.

If you are in stop and go traffic, then by definition you have the opportunity to rest your foot.
It would be only slow and go that you wouldn't have the opportunity to rest your foot.

 

[uthatch]

After picking my R1T yesterday and putting around 100 miles on it I realize that it’s not quite as easy to 1-foot drive as my Teslas are. The pedal depresses with more resistance and the modulation isn’t as refined. Neither are a huge deal to me and I’m sure I’ll adapt more but I do think Tesla has an advantage in this regard.

 

[Sportute]

I actually prefer the one foot driving. You don’t have to completely lift off the foot and press the brake. Just try to get your foot feeling neutral on the accelerator, not stretched forward.

 

[Inkedsphynx]

Not in Seattle traffic. It horrendous.

I've had good luck using Driver+ in stop and go on both 5 and 405.

I only ever feel the foot fatigue when I'm on an extended long flat section where I am not at all modulating the pedal so my foot sits in the same position for too long. Other than that I don't have any issues with foot/ankle fatigue.

 

[SASSquatch]

I think as someone who has been driving electric for the last 8 years, I have completely adapted to the one-pedal driving and literally HATE driving a non-one pedal vehicle. It takes some time to get used to the rapid deceleration but once you get over that hump (it took me a few weeks) it makes so much more sense and I find it relaxing to not have to constantly go back and forth between brake and pedal.

It helps that I'm a Sasquatch with little legroom in most cars so I always have to have my foot on the accelerator at an angle which makes it harder to go back and forth with the brake.

In stop and go traffic, it is a life safer. So much easier once you get used to feathering.

 

[jtshaw]

Not in Seattle traffic. It horrendous.

I've been 1-pedal driving in Seattle (95% of it not on the highway either, since I live and work in town) since 2015, and I will say... you eventually get used to it...

I used to have this experience with my i3 where going down hills with the battery full caught me off-guard because it turned down regen, and I had to remember to use the brakes...

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