TimLee
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I disagree completely with you Don.bowthom said:Hello,
I'm sorry but "dangerous" and "unintended movement" just don't apply.Don
The degree of significant torque forward movement that the LEAF does is way more than any properly designed automatic transmission ICE with appropriate engine RPM control.
I have experienced the same unintended acceleration that Audi had in 1986 on a Ford product that was built in Germany in 1988.
It was caused by defective throttle position sensors / RPM control that caused the engine to go to high RPM rapidly while initially at a stable throttle.
Now admittedly the Audi deaths caused by that were due to driver error, inattention and failing to respond to the sudden movement forward, or in the worst cases on the Audi hitting the accelerator instead of the brake. But the defective product design is what ended up with human performance error causing unnecessary deaths.
The LEAF creep is no where near that bad, or as dangerous.
But it is stupidly unnecessary and creates a similar unnecessary risk of human performance error resulting in a serious unnecessary accident.
On an automatic transmission ICE it would be expensive to make it have completely zero forward movement.
But to add unnecessary and unintended forward movement to an electric vehicle is just downright stupid and creates unnecessary accident risk.