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The First Modern Car Without Hydraulic Brakes Is Headed to Production (www.thedrive.com)

submitted 1 day ago by sanitation@lemmy.radio to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 3 hours ago

Love how people in this post believe THE brake manufacturing company, single supplier for virtually all competition-level vehicles, not to mention billions of road vehicles, are a bunch of dumbasses who can't design a different version of their MAIN PRODUCT.

[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I drive solely using one pedal on my Bolt, and brake only when I need to stop faster. As long as it's reliable and safe this should be fine. Regenerative braking is really fun.

[–] benny@reddthat.com 3 points 8 hours ago

I'm sure no more messy bleeding the brakes will be cheered by those who need to do brake fluids (I dislike doing it on my motorcycles). Multiple motors and pistons should still mean adequate redundancy, but more details from the manufacturer would be nice.

[–] RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

This is a terrible idea.

Braking systems need MORE redundancy. Not less.

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago

Electronics are mostly solid state and are therefore virtually wear-free.

If it’s designed well, they could actually be more reliable than pushing fluids through tubes. But pushing fluids through tubes is already pretty fucking reliable.

I think the main point is to eliminate rusting brake discs from EVs, which rely largely on regenerative braking anyway. I know mine are constantly crusty; like I can always hear them scraping for the first few hundred meters of driving. Which is prolly not great.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

does not really matter when brakes are only activated electronically, sadly

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