No. They follow curves and have blank spots when shining at an oncoming car.
That’s why i leave them on until i see someone. But it’s nasty to have lights in your eyes.
Better lights in the eyes than Tesla tire treads, at least…
Not owning a Kia I can’t answer for that but in my Bolt the optimum speed for max distance is 45mph. Above that it slowly declines as speed increases to 65 then it drops off a cliff. Accordingly when I’m on the road I stay in the right-hand lane at 65mph, the same speed as a lot – but not all – semitrailer trucks.
These Tesla cars sound dangerous! In the event that I do get a new car, there’s no way that I’m going to get one of these cars.
You seem to think Tesla cars are dangerous. Pleas chime in again in a few months and remind us.
My family bought a Tesla a few years back and will not be getting another. I’ll admit there are some cool things about it (being able to monitor it from literally thousands of miles away, or seeing a 3D model of the surrounding terrain onscreen), but it’s just too techy for my tastes. The thing that I could never get used to, however, is that I have to constantly hold down the gas pedal to accelerate, even downhill, and it slows down quickly whenever it’s not pressed. Call me old-fashioned, but that sounds like an accident waiting to happen. I was scared every time I took it onto the freeway. I get that it’s handy for stop-and-go traffic, but fixing one problem should not make every other part of the experience worse, and cause a potential hazard to boot.
I happen to find it much more intuitive in every respect but it’s definitely a matter of taste. This isn’t really a Tesla thing. Most EVs have one pedal driving.
What car accelerates when you take your foot off the pedal? That sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
a) I love one-pedal driving. It makes the vehicle one of the easiest to keep at a constant speed when you aren’t using cruise control.
b) You can adjust the level of regen braking when you take your foot off the pedal to make it more conventional feeling. I prefer it the way it comes “out of the box”.
Sorry, I meant I have to constantly hold down the pedal to not decelerate, even just to maintain speed. It slows to a halt quickly when it’s not pressed down. Again, I’m sure there’s a reason, but it’s not something I like dealing with at high speed.
It is easy to turn off the aggressive regen braking. If you still have the car:
Touch Controls > Dynamics > Deceleration Mode
Change to “reduced” which limits regen braking and will allow the car to coast.
It’s actually an example of good design: operator input causes proportional machine behavior; lack of input causes machine to return to safe state.
In the case of a motor vehicle, the vehicle speed is proportional to how depressed the accelerator pedal is. The operator is continuously giving input. If the operator ceases to press the pedal, the vehicle slows to a stop.
As opposed to the more traditional accelerator pedal, where the pedal depression is proportional to the engine power. The problem is this engine is in a moving vehicle. The engine being in a safe state of no power does not necessarily put the vehicle in a safe state of no speed.
Thus the switch from the accelerator controlling the engine power to controlling the vehicle speed. Yes, this takes some adjustment, but it would be safer if all vehicles followed this pattern. (Just as vehicles don’t generally have throttles, chokes, or timing controls any more because operation has become more focused on the vehicle as a whole rather than the power plant itself.)
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Logically, it makes sense. But my foot gets tired. I suppose that’s not an issue for people who use cruise control, but i don’t generally do that.
I’m not sold that encouraging the use of cruise control makes for overall safer driving.
I’ve been using the cruise control/front end sensing in my Subaru since about 2017. My sense is that it’s safer when I set a following distance appropriate to whatever environment I’m in, i.e. highway versus local. But I’m sure there must be studies on that.
Have you used adaptive cruise control? It’s very practical to use even on some non-highway driving and is a great feature of newer cars
I have. I’ve even used lane-keeping adaptive cruise control. I’m much more likely to fall asleep if don’t have more i need to do. (If I’m especially tired, I’ll take a highway with lights and shops instead of an interstate, because I’ll drive more safely.)
I’m waiting for real auto pilot, where i don’t need to be paying attention. Until then, I’m not going to make much use of cruise control.
Fwiw, I’ve played around with one pedal driving on my new car, and other than the strain on my calf muscles, it’s fine. It’s certainly very intuitive.
Perhaps I misunderstand your point.
For constant speed cruising you have to hold your foot in a fixed position against gentle spring pressure. This is identical for 1- or 2- pedal driving.
For accelerating or slowing you need to modulate foot pressure to achieve your speed changing goals. This is also identical for 1- or 2- pedal driving, although the exact profile of pedal modulation over time is surely different.
How do you find these seemingly similar situations different as to fatigue?
I have to press a lot harder for the same speed when it’s set to one pedal driving. With every other car (including this one without one pedal driving) i pretty much just hold my foot gently in place to cruise along at highway speed. But when i set this one to one pedal driving, i have to press down significantly to hold my speed.
Maybe that’s a quirk of this car?