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by eurleif 878 days ago
Having no brake lights for regenerative braking sounds incredibly dangerous. Regenerative braking can slow the vehicle down quite quickly, and as the name "one-pedal driving" suggests, it's common to barely touch the brake pedal at all.

Perhaps a better version of your complaint is that Tesla has made the threshold for the brake lights too sensitive; but I would be curious how much observation went into drawing that conclusion.

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I drive my manual and auto cars like this, downshifting instead of using the brakes and preventing dangerous acceleration. I often only use the brakes from 20mph and below (though may touch them during a downshift)

Thinking it's more dangerous is odd as it's a great example of fail safe.