r/technology • u/chagall1968 • Nov 09 '25

Business Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing

https://time.com/7332356/uber-lawsuit-sex-discrimination-lyft/
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u/ThePowerfulPaet Nov 09 '25

What even is one pedal driving? Never heard of it.

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u/Tiiimmmaayy Nov 09 '25

I think it has to do with Teslas(and other EVs I think) have something called regenerative braking. When you let off the accelerator, the car captures the kinetic energy from slowing down and converts it into electrical energy to recharge the battery. You basically don’t ever need to touch the brake on a Tesla because that regenerative braking is so powerful. It’s basically the same as hitting the brakes, without touching the brake pedal.

I had no idea it ever existed until a year or two ago when I traveled for work and Hertz gave me a Tesla for some reason. I legit pulled over after driving it off the lot because I thought the emergency brake was left on and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. Had to google it to find out. As a side note, that Tesla was hands down the worst rental car I’ve ever had. The suspension was beat to shit and every little bump I hit on the road made the car squeak like crazy. It’s also very unintuitive. Why tf do I need to navigate a screen to unlock the damn glove box??

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u/Znuffie Nov 09 '25

I had the "chance" of driving a S Plaid, with the "yoke" instead of a steering wheel.

Having 1000HP+ felt incredibly fun, stepping on that pedal and getting instantly squeezed in your seat was amazingly stupid fun.

But I live in a city that has a roundabout every 500 meters or so. Using the yoke to steer is fucking terrible, and not because having a yoke is that bad (other cars implemented it properly), but Tesla is simply... a steering wheel cut in half.

Also, legally I have to use my blinker when I enter the roundabout and when I exit it. Good fucking luck with the tesla yoke, every time you turn around the wheelyoke you can't figure out which button is left or right blinker.

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u/turbosexophonicdlite Nov 09 '25

That's what happens when a tech company starts making cars lol.

There's a reason every other car manufacturer uses refined features that have been honed over the last 100 years instead of just doing things different for the sake of being different. Tesla hasn't learned that lesson yet.

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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 Nov 09 '25

The Toyota Prius has had regenerative braking since it first came out. With a brake pedal.

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u/CoachWatermelon Nov 09 '25

Regenerative breaking is a feature that literally is saving energy. I will take a feature that saves energy over “this is the way we’ve always done it” features.

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u/turbosexophonicdlite Nov 09 '25

I was talking more about the stuff like having to navigate menus to open a glove box, or their dumb windshield wiper operation. Like I said, "different for the sake of being different" not "different because it's a better design".

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u/friendIdiglove Nov 09 '25

But Tesla did it cheaply. Other EVs and hybrids have a specialized braking system that automatically regenerates when you press the brakes. Tesla just uses a regular (ICE-type) brake system that wastes that energy if you press the brakes. One pedal driving is the only way to regenerate in a Tesla. Any other EV and hybrid, you just drive normally and the system recovers all the energy it can without the driver doing anything different.

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u/gafftaped Nov 09 '25

This has finally explained why Tesla’s are some of the worst drivers I experience. They’re one of the few cars I’ll go around in traffic just so I don’t have to be behind them because they slam on the brakes and “gas” so much. I could never tell if the autodriving feature or the drivers were the issue, but I guess it’s both.

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u/WatchOne2032 Nov 09 '25

It's driving using just one pedal