This bothers me more than it should.
It should be called the decoupler pedal because that’s what it actually does.
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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.
But not when the isTest flag is set. Then they're clean as a whistle.