I particularly like the autobrake when drivers door's open.

[DaevM]

For all of the tech/auto/assists I'm saying I don't want or need, I just discovered how much I love the autobrake when drivers door's open facility.
Got home, reversed into drive chatting with wife about the success of our road trip ( we don't get out much ).
Went to climb out and the car shot backwards. We have a slight incline down to the garage door. I'd slammed my foot on the brake, or so I thought and we'd stopped before hitting the garage. Something didn't feel quite right. I looked down to see I'd got my foot, pedal to the metal, on the throttle. {ahem ?}.
I can only assume the car had ignored my instruction to go back real fast ( and ruin the day/week/month ) decided to follow the rule that says if the driver's doors open, ignore the throttle.
Lucky me ( I'll say!!)
I will test this theory out on a suitable carpark / airstrip in the near future.

Note to self : PAY ATTENTION!!

Take away : don't underestimate the tech!!

 

[Tight Git]

Glad you didn't hit anything and good that the car saved your blushes!

It shows how easy it is to hit the throttle instead of the brake in error. So many instances of people saying the car shot forwards (or whatever) then claiming it was impossible that it was the throttle they were on.

 

[DaevM]

Glad you didn't hit anything and good that the car saved your blushes!

It shows how easy it is to hit the throttle instead of the brake in error. So many instances of people saying the car shot forwards (or whatever) then claiming it was impossible that it was the throttle they were on.

Yup, must admit I didn't think I could ever possibly do it, but there it was - proof of the pudding.

 

[tsedge]

Most cases of this are:

• hit wrong pedal
• pedal affected by foreign object / carpet

That doesn't mean that bugs in the car's systems couldn't cause it, but it is highly unlikely.

The trouble is people are adamant they hit the correct pedal but it is almost impossible to prove.

 

[Bricktop X PWR]

For all of the tech/auto/assists I'm saying I don't want or need, I just discovered how much I love the autobrake when drivers door's open facility.
Got home, reversed into drive chatting with wife about the success of our road trip ( we don't get out much ).
Went to climb out and the car shot backwards. We have a slight incline down to the garage door. I'd slammed my foot on the brake, or so I thought and we'd stopped before hitting the garage. Something didn't feel quite right. I looked down to see I'd got my foot, pedal to the metal, on the throttle. {ahem ?}.
I can only assume the car had ignored my instruction to go back real fast ( and ruin the day/week/month ) decided to follow the rule that says if the driver's doors open, ignore the throttle.
Lucky me ( I'll say!!)
I will test this theory out on a suitable carpark / airstrip in the near future.

Note to self : PAY ATTENTION!!

Take away : don't underestimate the tech!!

Kylie Minogue Springs to mind!

Lucky Lucky Lucky boy!

 

[OriginalBigAl]

I think that it also engages P mode , hopefully after the brakes have done their job? Otherwise there could be loud clunk.

Yup, must admit I didn't think I could ever possibly do it, but there it was - proof of the pudding.

Cornish Cobbler???

 

[DaevM]

Kylie Minogue Springs to mind!

Lucky Lucky Lucky boy!

Kylie Minogue ALWAYS springs to mind - ever since she was made trendy by Men Behaving Badly. "Ahhh, Kylie."

 

[Kithmo]

More likely the collision avoidance kicked in, rather than the door being open having anything to do with it.

 

[DaevM]

More likely the collision avoidance kicked in, rather than the door being open having anything to do with it.

Pretty sure I read about the door somewhere. As I say, I'll test it out and feedback.
I have all the TLAs switched off.

 

[MangoQPR]

Kylie Minogue ALWAYS springs to mind - ever since she was made trendy by Men Behaving Badly. "Ahhh, Kylie."

Some of us have been Kylie fans since the start! Anyway, glad the wife doesn't know about this forum!!

Had one myself the other evening, where I was driving along, and instead of accelerating away the car just seemed to slow itself... I wondered what was happening, until I realised that my foot was on the brake...I think I shall blame it on middle age confusion...

 

[wattmatters]

Most cases of this are:

• hit wrong pedal
• pedal affected by foreign object / carpet

I sometimes have the issue of my left shoe getting stuck under the brake pedal. There is inadequate room on the left footrest for me. I don't always know it happens as I have a prosthetic leg.

This is when I first get in, no issue:

But after a while the foot will slip down and I do not notice as there I have no sensation of it, so this happens and I cannot easily depress the brake pedal very far:

It's not uncommon that I don't quite get the brake response I expect, then push really hard which forces the pedal past my shoe and of course the braking is then much harder than intended.

My prosthetic is "tuned" to the type of shoe so it's not like I can easily use a different shoe to drive. A second leg would set me back close to $20k (the foot component alone is about $15k). I didn't notice the issue when test driving and it's not something I've had with perhaps two dozen other makes and models I've driven.

I also wish there was a right side foot rest like in my Golf. It makes long cruise control sections of highway much more comfortable. My larger Merc didn't have that and I hated it.

 

[Ian Key]

Could you fix a piece of angle through the floor mat to keep your heel in place?

 

[wattmatters]

Could you fix a piece of angle through the floor mat to keep your heel in place?

Thanks for the suggestion. One could do something like that but I'm not the only driver of the car and not keen on such a mod which might cause harm to others (mainly my wife). It's hard enough getting my foot in and out as it is. You don't realise how much your ankle enables you to do until you don't have one.

At least with regen braking the need for the brake pedal is minimised.

 

[tsedge]

It is hard to think of a safe solution - clearly some kind of side strap might help secure your foot better but then it would probably be difficult to attach/reattach and make rapid exit in an emergency very difficult.

I wish we had a right hand side footrest too - there is no real excuse for not having one given the space available with EVs and the overall width of the car.

 

[mg4mc]

It does put it into P (and locks the transmission) whilst the car is still moving. I have done it (opened the door) whilst the car was rolling slowly to try and look at an obstruction. BANG! A very sudden halt with back wheels locked.

 

[dave99]

I reverse onto my drive which slopes down from the road - sometimes I don't put it in park properly if I'm in a hurry and don't tap P hard enough (and auto hold doesn't work in reverse), opening the door always slams on the brakes and tells me off, its a horrid noise

 

[Rolfe]

If you want confusion, yesterday evening I was leaving my house and proceeding the few yards to the give-way junction at the end of the road. The council have installed a sort of corrugated tray across the road as a traffic calming measure, and it makes the car shudder a bit. When I felt the shudder as I slowed down, my left foot stamped on the footrest. (I actually think I have done that before, more than once.)

And only ten minutes later I was telling an admiring passenger that the car was just as easy to drive as an automatic, same thing really, and I'd had an automatic for 14 years so I was well used to it. Duh.

 

[DixieTGS]

One could do something like that but I'm not the only driver of the car and not keen on such a mod which might cause harm to others (mainly my wife). It's hard enough getting my foot in and out as it is. You don't realise how much your ankle enables you to do until you don't have one.

You've probably thought of these and discounted them already, but if the force needed to retain the heel to the left is quite small:

A small piece of Velcro on the plastic to the left and the shoe?

Some kind of weak plastic clip on the car which attaches to the tube via a loop of cord or strap?

 

[Kithmo]

I sometimes have the issue of my left shoe getting stuck under the brake pedal. There is inadequate room on the left footrest for me. I don't always know it happens as I have a prosthetic leg.

This is when I first get in, no issue:

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But after a while the foot will slip down and I do not notice as there I have no sensation of it, so this happens and I cannot easily depress the brake pedal very far:

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It's not uncommon that I don't quite get the brake response I expect, then push really hard which forces the pedal past my shoe and of course the braking is then much harder than intended.

My prosthetic is "tuned" to the type of shoe so it's not like I can easily use a different shoe to drive. A second leg would set me back close to $20k (the foot component alone is about $15k). I didn't notice the issue when test driving and it's not something I've had with perhaps two dozen other makes and models I've driven.

I also wish there was a right side foot rest like in my Golf. It makes long cruise control sections of highway much more comfortable. My larger Merc didn't have that and I hated it.

I also sometimes catch my foot on the side of the brake pedal but with my right foot. IMO the brake pedal is too high.

 

[Rolfe]

Thanks for the suggestion. One could do something like that but I'm not the only driver of the car and not keen on such a mod which might cause harm to others (mainly my wife). It's hard enough getting my foot in and out as it is. You don't realise how much your ankle enables you to do until you don't have one.

At least with regen braking the need for the brake pedal is minimised.

It sounds very awkward. I wonder if there might be something that would keep your foot in place that could be removed when other people were driving the car. Possibly the sort of thing these ingenious boffins who customise and fit prosthetic limbs could dream up?