This bothers me more than it should.
It should be called the decoupler pedal because that’s what it actually does.
It really grinds my gears
This bothers me more than it should.
It should be called the decoupler pedal because that’s what it actually does.
39 Comments
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 58d
Accelerator isn’t accurate because it still works, but won’t accelerate in neutral.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 58d
The brakes cause acceleration, too.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 58d
Relevant:
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 14 pts · 58d
Take your pick lol
or
Telodzrum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 58d
lol
Love it, thanks.
MattBlackAlien@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 58d
It still accelerates the engine.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d
No, that's the throttle. The accelerator is just an input control linked to the many things that make the engine go BRRR.
If anything, the flywheel is the most acceleratey bit since it can make things increase in speed even if the engine is at sustained rpm because the driver died of boredom reading this.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website · 3 pts · 58d
Respect. You’re right. It should be called gas/fuel/energy pedal because you always get more of it when you press it while actual acceleration has more dependencies.
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 58d
In most gasoline vehicles it's the throttle pedal. Pressing it reduces how much you're throttling the engines air supply
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 58d
It feels weird because it’s a pedal, but I guess it counts as a throttle.
mkwt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 58d
The throttle is the actual valve, a piece of metal sitting inside the air intake that rotates to allow various amounts of air to pass into the engine.
That thing, the valve, is still properly called a throttle on all IC engines. And even the very modern computerized gas engines have one.
In older direct fuel injection, the accelerator pedal was still directly connected to the throttle valve. A separate fuel injection control system increased and decreased the amount of fuel going in to maintain a steady fuel-air ratio.
On modern automobiles, the pedal is usually fully "fly-by-wire". The computer reads the pedal position like a joystick and decides how to move the throttle and fuel injection to achieve the commander input.
Electric cars are built around brushless DC motors. The "DC" there is a bit of a misnomer. These motors rely on a microprocessor to generate the variable-frequency AC waveforms to drive the stators in real time. This allows higher efficiency than older motor control technology, but it means that there's basically no way to operate the motor without the motor control software. So in these cars the pedal is always just a joystick input.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 58d
Not all IC engines, but all gasoline ones.
Diesel engines are really more like colloquial term gas pedal, the more you push, the more the injector pumps dispense. That’s what m makes diesels more efficient (no pumping losses like a gasoline engine.
Unfortunately they are dirty as hell.
mkwt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 58d
But not when the isTest flag is set. Then they're clean as a whistle.
untorquer@quokk.au · 4 pts · 58d
Classics are neat but nowadays we have the human interface power setting sensor.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 58d
I think its logical, thats why it isnt called the clutcher. It just controls the clutch mechanism so clutch pedal is a completely valid name.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 58d
Ok, now I'm gonna start using "clutcher"...
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 58d
"unclutcher", to be accurate
untorquer@quokk.au · 5 pts · 58d
Unclencher
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 58d
Declutcher, but ya.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 58d
What if we compromise and name it the clutch decoupler pedal, and then everybody calls it the clutch for short?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 58d
Wait until you hear people say "depress the clutch to engage the clutch pedal"
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 58d
It's gas, breaks, clutch. They control the gas, the brakes and the clutch.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 16 pts · 58d
"Breaks"
I like how autoincorrect fucked you the first time, but got it right the second time. Haja
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 58d
Haha yes autocomplete, that's what did it 😅
cabillaud@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 58d
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 58d
The brake pedal also accelerates
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 58d
If we're talking physics here, technically the steering wheel accelerates, too.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 58d
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 58d
Well it would be pretty uncomfortable to always press it to drive.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 58d
Decouple deez nuts!
Wait, noooooooo!
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 57d
Snip
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 58d
Hahaha, ok, I'll give ya this one because of the community in which you posted it (and "grinds my gears")
Yaky@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 58d
Now look up when an electronic circuit is "open" and when it is "closed"; conventional current flow vs actual electron flow; negative voltage.
(These are not that confusing, just unexpected for someone new)
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 58d
"Foot feat, break, clutch" - My mother in law
Now this cancer lives in you. 😈
Eheran@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 58d
I don't get it.
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 58d
She doesn't call it an accelerator or gas pedal. She calls it a foot feet. No typo.
And I understand, I hear it come out of her mouth in person and I still don't get it.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 58d
Clutch deez nuts.
(Please)
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 3 pts · 58d
Ok, so its Left foot, right foot.... Profit?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 58d
i never got the hang of a clutch. clutchless manual was fine.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -4 pts · 58d
Americans cannot comprehend.