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Rod Speed
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:54:55 +1000, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid>
wrote:
Bloody hell, we never do that and the the driving school
cars dont have any pedals in the passenger seat either.
Most choose to learn to drive in their own car and the
driving school does have a few cars that they use for
teaching those that don\'t have a car, but they are
normal cars, no extra pedals.
No it is not. And I have just taught two who are married
to drive here and they both passed the test the first time.
And when they moved to Sydney from a NSW country town
600km away, initially I went along in the car with them and
their 1 year old, in case they decided that it was a bit far for
those two to drive for the first time, in reality I drove all the
way because he is notorious for changing his mind as often
as he changes his shirt and decided on the spur of the
moment to leave the country town at midnight after
not having had any sleep for 24 hours.
We arrived very late in Sydney after not stopping for any
more than a couple of minutes for fuel on the way, because
that car produced a very odd noise on the grooved concrete
road down the mountains to ensure cars don\'t slip in icy
conditions and I had to stop to check what was doing that.
I was coming back home by train because they were short
of money. I normally fly. I had booked the train trip before
leaving the country town and it only runs once a day to my
country town, first thing in the morning.
I pulled up at the lights outside the central railway station
with minutes to spare without knowing where the country
rail lines were in by far the biggest railway station in the
entire country, I pulled up at the lights, turned to him and
said \"I\'m off\" with no warning, grabbed my bag and left
the car. He was bit stunned but managed fine, even
managed to work out how to get onto the Sydney Harbour
Bridge that he needed to get to the north side of Sydney
Harbour where he needed to go, driving for the first time
in the biggest most complicated state capital city in the
country.
I managed to miss the train by minutes and he managed
to come back into the city fine in the evening again that
evening. Using the satbav in his Nokia phone both times.
wrote:
On 2023-04-20 00:27, Rod Speed wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:52:52 +1000, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-04-19 18:27, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:36:49 +0200, \"Carlos E.R.\"
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
On 2023-04-19 14:12, Theo wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
Interesting.
How does it work, you foot the brake pedal, and the car decides
whether
to apply the actual brakes or generator mode?
In general yes. The car will decide whether to use regen or
friction
brakes. For example mostly regen if the battery can take it, but
at low
speeds friction might be used for the last few mph down to zero
where regen
is weak. Also in an emergency stop both might be used.
What happens when you release the accelerator pedal? Does it just
coast
along, or does it apply \"engine brake\" as in a gasoline car?
That\'s called \'one pedal driving\', and on many EVs you can adjust
the
retardation (regen) in a number of steps from coasting through to
quite
aggressive braking. Coasting is more like a regular transmission
where you
have to use the brake pedal, whereas with higher levels you can
drive with
accelerator alone.
By \"regular transmission\" you mean \"automatic\"?
Most cars here have a manual transmission,
where\'s that?
My address says \"es\", thus Spain
and on those the (gasoline)
car brakes somewhat when the accelerator pedal is released. We use
that
to maintain the speed when going down long slopes, instead of using
the
brake. If we need more brake action, we shift to a lower gear.
My wife and kid threatened to divorce me if I got one more
manual-transmission car. They couldn\'t drive a manual on the hills
here.
:-D
Till relatively recently, the driving test was done only on manual
cars.
Are you saying you don\'t get tested in your own car or
the one from the driving school you learnt to drive in ?
The test is done in the driving school car, and all of them I have seen
are manual shift.
You could use another car, but it has to be fitted with pedals on the
other seat.
Bloody hell, we never do that and the the driving school
cars dont have any pedals in the passenger seat either.
Most choose to learn to drive in their own car and the
driving school does have a few cars that they use for
teaching those that don\'t have a car, but they are
normal cars, no extra pedals.
No it is not. And I have just taught two who are married
to drive here and they both passed the test the first time.
And when they moved to Sydney from a NSW country town
600km away, initially I went along in the car with them and
their 1 year old, in case they decided that it was a bit far for
those two to drive for the first time, in reality I drove all the
way because he is notorious for changing his mind as often
as he changes his shirt and decided on the spur of the
moment to leave the country town at midnight after
not having had any sleep for 24 hours.
We arrived very late in Sydney after not stopping for any
more than a couple of minutes for fuel on the way, because
that car produced a very odd noise on the grooved concrete
road down the mountains to ensure cars don\'t slip in icy
conditions and I had to stop to check what was doing that.
I was coming back home by train because they were short
of money. I normally fly. I had booked the train trip before
leaving the country town and it only runs once a day to my
country town, first thing in the morning.
I pulled up at the lights outside the central railway station
with minutes to spare without knowing where the country
rail lines were in by far the biggest railway station in the
entire country, I pulled up at the lights, turned to him and
said \"I\'m off\" with no warning, grabbed my bag and left
the car. He was bit stunned but managed fine, even
managed to work out how to get onto the Sydney Harbour
Bridge that he needed to get to the north side of Sydney
Harbour where he needed to go, driving for the first time
in the biggest most complicated state capital city in the
country.
I managed to miss the train by minutes and he managed
to come back into the city fine in the evening again that
evening. Using the satbav in his Nokia phone both times.