While theyre redesigning the "gas" pedal, just redesign the whole thing
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2024
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This is fucking hilarious
From the comments:
When I worked at Boeing, we used dawn dish soap to seat door gaskets. Tesla is just adopting aerospace technologies for its fancy cars, what's the problem?
Hmm. It's not totally clear to me from the description what's breaking, but based on what's there, I feel like this maybe isn't the best fix. Like, okay, fine, maybe the lube problem is the proximate cause.
But bigger question: should automobile pedals mechanically be able to be wedged down by the pedal in the first place? Like, can I shove the pedal down with one foot and then pull this pedal cover up with another in such a way that it gets held in the down position?
The cover slips between the dash and the floor wedging the pedal down.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLa8p5o1/
This is the video source of the recall.
How would you propose changing the pedal?
a single pedal part instead of a pedal with a fancy design fascia on top.
The problematic part is a rug, not the pedal
Edit: Nevermind, misread at 2 am
so the pedal fascia can slide up and get caught under the dash (there's a gap in the dash covers that it slides right into!?!?, no shit) or down and under the rug.
Either are very bad ideas for a pedal connected to that much power.
And why does the pedal need the plastic bit? because otherwise it would be unadorned, plain black.
I'm of the mind that I'd prefer my pedals simple, so they're less likely to kill someone lol.
Put a fastener through the thing, preventing it from moving?
But then it would just be a footrest
To stop the part from sliding off, not the whole pedal.
their solution is rivets. I suspect this is going to repeat itself when the plastic around those rivet holes cracks and degrades, but the cybertwat might be off the road by then for any number of other idiotic design 'choices'
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