• Brosplosion@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Is it an accelerator? Or is it a jerk pedal? Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

    I definitely have friends

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      Technically the gas pedal controls the change in acceleration, right?

      Technically it controls the amount of air and/or fuel delivered to the engine (in a gas engine, the pedal directly controls airflow; in a diesel engine it directly controls fuel flow)

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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      3 hours ago

      Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction. The steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal all accelerate the vehicle.

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        Acceleration in physics terms just means a change in velocity. Velocity is speed in a given direction

        They definitely know that, given that they know that change in acceleration is called jerk

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          And I had no idea what the fourth derivative was called so I had to look it up. It’s called snap or jounce.

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Increasing speed -> acceleration Decreasing speed -> negative acceleration Changing direction -> Vector acceleration(change in velocity)

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    No, one of them is the “don’t accelerate” pedal you use to switch gears.

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      5 hours ago

      I think that car has a dead pedal, otherwise that is the fattest clutch pedal I have seen by a longshot.

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        It could be the handbrake (well, footbrake). If that’s the case, it’s unusually close to the other pedals.

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        30 minutes ago

        Exactly my thinking, looks like a dead pedal not a clutch.

        I’ve never seen a clutch bigger than the brake pedal.

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      5 hours ago

      That looks like a dead pedal (foot rest), not a clutch pedal. Normally only the gas pedal has a full pedal face on it. A clutch pedal normally looks like a brake pedal.

      Edit: Eh someone already said this but I agree with them.

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      7 hours ago

      I’m on mobile and could be wrong, but this picture looks like it’s an automatic and that’s a foot rest, not a clutch (nearly all Fords have a large plate like that in that spot to rest your left foot)

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    8 hours ago

    Okay student, now turn the accelerator and feather the accelerator as you accelerate into the curve, then press the accelerator to accelerate your acceleration out the curve.

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      Depends on what you mean by “press” really

      Moving your foot through a gas will displace the gas, and there will be a (albiet small) pressure difference around the foot as it moves through the gas. An increase on the side in direction of movement, a decrease on the opposite side of direction of movement, and some vortices on the sides.

      Basically a very poorly designed wing.

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      I can imagine a scenario where you a gas is encased in a volume that you can reduce by stepping on it with your foot, thus pressurizing it.

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      Well, with Alfas half of those accelerators probably don’t work!

      (Actually jk, afaik this is only an old-timey joke now)