Possible poll of Gen II's to test presence of throttle override

I would be willing to help, as long as "highway" includes two-lane state highway. I have to drive an hour and a half to get to divided interstate highway. I'm not willing to drive three hours round trip for a poll.

Tom

 

I drive the interstate daily to work. THis throttle over ride you speak of-- you mean putting the shifter in neutral, or pushing the "P" park button, or pushing in the Power button?

or something different?

 

What is throttle override?

 

Oh, c'mon. You don't need a massive poll to do this, I know how
it works. I did a little confirmation experiment this evening,
in fact, watching my pressure monitors to determine if the physical
brakes were coming on, how hard, etc. [Yup, as much as I say "learn
to drive your vehicle", five years and I'm *still* learning how to
drive mine.]
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First of all, if you are into the go-pedal at all, there's no regen.
Not even part of the equation, as regen *only* happens near the very
bottom of the pedal. [Where "bottom" == no foot on it]. So forget
about any regen braking if your foot is asking for motive power.
.
If you left-foot the brake pedal, pressure goes to the hydraulics and
you begin dragging the brakes. Guess what, this is how Chumpus in
SoCal burned his brakes while still going at high speed! I bet he
figured out how to do this, to make it look like he'd been trying
to brake. Even with light pressure there are still plenty of kilowatts
being dissipated in the brake parts, so of course they'll get nice and
hot after 30 miles. And that drain of power likely won't let you reach
full speed on an open road, but rather hold the car back to, oh, say
about 90 MPH. Funny that. So here we are, lightly pushing both pedals
at once and still moving. Doesn't matter if the engine is on or not,
either, we could be doing this entirely in EV if the demand is
light enough. Motive demand is motive demand, period.
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Increasing the brake pressure past a certain defined point, measured
by the master cylinder pressure sensor, triggers the hybrid controller
to remove all motive power. Boom. It's rather sudden, and now those
dragging brakes with increased pressure have a more profound effect
on the car. Your pizza flies off the seat. Just like Carolyn showed
us in the videos. Let up on the brake a bit, and motive power returns.
Thus, the "override" requires braking like you mean it, i.e. you want
to stop.
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You can test where that point is at a standstill. While holding the
brake, put the car in Drive, and then play with brake pressure. At
a certain point you will feel in your butt-dyno where the motor cuts
off the creep force or lets it return. That's the same pressure
point, where driving force is simply disabled regardless of where the
go-pedal is. It is *not* related to the point at which the brake
lights go on -- that happens much earlier and is controlled by the
plunger switch on the pedal assembly at the start of the stroke.
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Simple enough??
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Interesting subtlety: if you've brought in some brake pressure and then
let *off* the go-pedal, hoping it will switch back to pure regen, it
doesn't. You have to get off the brake pedal and reapply, and then
regen is brought in. So if you're one of those two-foot drivers,
get out of the habit.
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_H*