Ahh yes, classic china not knowing how to make a good gas padel, unlike america which as we all know did not have this issue very recently
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Okay, but that brand is Elon Musk, and nobody should buy anything even remotely owned by him.
Wooosh
Interesting that in the headline it's a "Chinese EV" rather than any specific model. Imagine seeing the same headline but with "American truck."
American EV gas pedal falls off.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-cybertruck-recall-accelerator-pedal-1.7178569
The headline literally names the brand.
Yes, when it's an American company. That's the double standard they're pointing out
I think part of it is its chinese testing for a chinese vehicle from a chinese sorce. At some point they are going to have to mention it.
Presumably the primary demographic of thedrive.com is in the US and wouldn't have a lot of knowledge about specific chinese car models and brands, seeing as how we don't have access to any of them.
Fearmongering to try and drive down demand for Chinese EVs...
If you are worried about this, get your local politicians to regulate vehicle safety, not ban one import source, or you'll just end up with plastic brake pedals from the western enshittification masters all the same, and you'll be paying more for the privilege.
In a video made by a Chinese team in Chinese?
Not the video, the article and headline.
The video says a specific make and model. Not, "China EV".
Unless thedrive.com is a chinese outlet, too, I have no idea what kind of point you're trying to make.
So does the article. Not the headline.
This is what happens when you trust some random "news" outlet that nobody has heard of.
Taiwan also has Chinese people who speak Chinese.
seems that way to me. apparently people in china are fearmongering to drive down demand for chinese imports or get them band.
Engaging the park gear at speed on an ICE wouldn’t do much, because the pawl would snap. Do they mean parking brake?
The automaker’s position is that these defects were discovered during “non-standard, extreme test conditions,”
yes that’s what emergency braking is. Non-standard use. It might happen twice in a vehicles lifetime or 200 times a day depending on whether the driver is a bus driver, but in any case it must not break.
Engaging the park gear at speed
I guess it's from the fact that "D" / "P" / "R" are on the selector, so "Park" gets promoted to honorary gear status these days.
Putting an EV into "Park" activates the (electrically actuated) parking brake. Which isn't really made to be activated when the vehicle is in motion, so it's anyone's guess whether it will burn out its tiny brake pads before you actually stop.
In any case, that brake pedal should be able to withstand as much force as a human can place on it. Plus a bit, because humans can be unexpectedly strong when they are stressed out. Ideally from a design perspective it would be able to travel until it reaches the floor and then be supported by the floor.