Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?

Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• OscarRobin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kia and Hyundai EVs tend to have physical controls for most things

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But how much are they tracking you?

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• Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s a PRNDL?

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  • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low (gear). The 5 “standard” positions the standard shifter levers could be set to. Versus the weird stuff like dials or push-buttons that are incredibly hard to operate by muscle-memory if you aren’t looking right at them.

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    • Aux@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      EVs have no gears, they don’t need this stuff. Or they have a manual simulation.

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      • Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        EVs have no gears GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS

        EVs do, in fact, Park.
        EVs can, in fact, Reverse. EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode. EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.

        “Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    youtu.be/OFDy9pGTtjE

    This is forever burned into my head. I’ve not really watched that series and I remember nothing else. Just PRNDL.

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  • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.

    Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.

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