Is Your Driving Being Secretly Scored?
www.nytimes.com
The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.
  • the_third@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    19 days ago

    I drive an electric vehicle and the unfortunate reality is, that brakes that are large enough for an emergency stop get underutilized during everyday, regenerative braking. So they rust.

    My solution is: Every time I get back to our village in wet weather, I accelerate hard on the last long straight and brake hard to almost a standstill once. No more brake trouble, all four rotors squeaky clean, but any measuring device would write me up as the biggest idiot on the roads out there.

      • the_third@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        19 days ago

        The severity of the problem depends on external factors:

        • do you live in a dry and salt-free environment? No problem.
        • did the maker of your car implement disc wiping as a precaution? No problem.
        • did the maker of your car implement intermittent brake blending during recuperation? No problem.
        • is your car less driven in wet and salty conditions and then always store in a dry, warm garage? No problem.
        • does your car have drumsin the rear and near-undersized discs in the front? Less of a problem.