Cedthecanuck
How would coasting work with this system?
Ralf Biernacki
Unfortunately, the panic reaction to an impending crash is to dig one's feet in. In a normal car, the foot presses into the brake, stopping the car. Even, so, there are incidents when the accelerator is pressed by mistake. In this poorly-thought out e-Pedal design, pressing down hard will accelerate, making the crash worse. It would take a conscious deliberate inhibition of the panic response to actually ease off, braking the car---something that is not likely to happen, except maybe with Stig behind the wheel. A much safer and more sensible design would be to brake by pushing down, and accelerate by easing off---treat the ePedal conceptually as an enhanced brake, rather than an enhanced accelerator.
RXStephen
Coasting would only work if you have the switch off. Otherwise you would need to always hold some accelerator on if your not using cruise control. It looks more like a gimmick to me, a smart regen brake pedal that activates the mechanical brakes by wire would be better. This is just extremely heavy regen braking that probably activates the mechanical brakes for holding the car at stops. I hope it also activates the brake lights when heavy decelerating.
Gizmowiz
ePedal sounds like a backup power source----pedaling.
That's not going to make a big impression.
BorisFohrman
Freederick is absolutely correct this pedal needs relearning of driving techniques also what is "exiting driving" meanig trying to stop but accelerating instead,drop stupid Madison Ave speak talk, normal ,I assume by exiting your copy righter meant fast.
Nahor
I agree with Freederick. Also, I suspect that non of the Nissan engineers play video games or saw someone playing them. One just needs to see how controllers get moved around to "push the character in the right direction faster" and how hard buttons are pressed to punch harder/shoot faster to realize how bad an idea it is.
WilliamSager
Strikes me that if all controls are to be electronic you could just as easily control thrust with your thumb or finger.
Gizmowiz
Has to be tough pedaling with one pedal.
Grelly
I'm confused too. If I understand correctly, you brake by lifting your foot. So you control the rate of braking by how quickly you lift your foot? Doesn't that mean that if your foot slips of the pedal you do an emergency stop?
Freederick's idea is better, but if your foot slips off the brake in traffic, you accelerate rapidly into the back of the car in front.
Jason Catterall
Aah, the interweb's full of positivity today I see. Why don't we wait and try it before slamming Nissans engineers?