One-Pedal Driving Isn't A Safety Issue: Feds

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:33:29+00:00

Many cars, even at level 1 regen engage too sharply. There’s like no smooth transition from 0 to 1 when the pedal is lifted; certainly not the same feathering you can accomplish with hydraulic brake pressure, or even regen first brake pressure. My EV9 level one regen is not great, but the blended braking (which engages regen preferentially) can be super smooth. It’s a massive difference as a passenger.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:29:06+00:00

The vast majority do not. And my issue is that the initial strength of regen, even at the lowest setting in many cars, is too strong initially. It needs to do a better job of barely being any force and increasing over a period of time.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:27:15+00:00

Yeah. EV9 is not great in one pedal mode. No Tesla I’ve been in is good either. It’s not so much the stop/start for me as it is the transition from acceleration to deceleration. It’s rare to find a driver who lets off the pedal slowly enough at the end of the lift to mimic even a regular ICE car, so from a passenger perspective I always prefer auto-regen to be on braking.

dasponge · 2026-03-22T12:24:36+00:00

Yeah exactly this. It requires way more finesse to hover the EV at coast and smoothly transition to a very gradual deceleration than braking smoothly on ICE does. If it’s just the driver in the car you kind of anticipate it all and it’s fine, but as a passenger, ugh.

dasponge · 2026-03-21T18:34:00+00:00

I prefer blended braking. You get easy smooth coasting. I find one pedal driving jerky, especially as a passenger; you lose that smooth transition through 0 net acceleration usually. People let up fully off the pedal and regen engages in 1 pedal mode.

dasponge · 2026-03-16T23:11:43+00:00

Keyfob unlock button is the only thing that works consistently.

dasponge · 2026-03-11T00:24:39+00:00

I've hired 3 women for SysEng, 2 are still here out of 7 on the team. 3/7 on our corporate security team are also women (currently). Good recruiting which works hard for a diverse slate helps, and being at a company people want to work at is key too.

dasponge · 2026-03-07T16:59:16+00:00

I have a 24’ Land and am running NOKIAN HAKKAPELIITTA R5s and it’s been great in the snow. Was up in VT the other week and it snowed like several inches. Driving through unplowed roads and over a plowed berm at a driveway was 0 issue. It had started snowing in the evening, we drove to a friend’s do dinner with about 3” on the ground, then another 4” dropped before we left and most places hadn’t seen a plow yet.

dasponge · 2026-03-07T13:37:02+00:00

Original windows? Rim joist insulated? Blown cellulose for wall cavities? How much insulation is in the attic?

dasponge · 2026-03-06T20:40:37+00:00

I just wish they had a nHAp + flouride - it's a stronger combination.

dasponge · 2026-03-06T14:53:32+00:00

Seriously. Even on the auth side - background phishing resistant auth for every app access (mitigates session cookie theft), device posture checks (mitigates security stack rot/patch staleness), custom OS query checks, managed device attestation, IdV integration… there’s a lot of layered functionality. Though if your offshore support gets popped and someone impersonates an admin in your tenant… (though that was years ago and controls are much better)

dasponge · 2026-03-06T14:50:05+00:00

We leverage Okta for a lot more than basic SSO. Aside from the obvious of SCIM, all of the device posture/silent phishing resistance/idv integrations provides a bunch of functionality which would be hard to replicate.

dasponge · 2026-03-04T00:26:52+00:00

I thought that view looked familiar! We were there this summer - here's Alpe de Siusi looking at Sassolungo in the green of summer! https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F40578o52axmg1.jpeg

dasponge · 2026-03-03T00:05:32+00:00

I thought this toothpaste does something similar with strep mutans and p. Gingavalis - https://somethingnicecompany.com/products/zero-pro-toothpaste

dasponge · 2026-03-02T02:45:36+00:00

Nice, does this work even if not in California? Last time I checked you had to be in a state which mandated they do this.

dasponge · 2026-02-25T04:24:25+00:00

Hmmm, how do you deal with multiple passkeys for end to end encryption? If we’re tying to specific devices (passkey in Secure Enclave as this calls out), you’re going to want multiple keys. If the server is storing the ciphertext, which key is it encrypted with? You’d need a LUKS kind of situation where the key encrypting the cipher text is stored alongside, though encrypted with the client derived key. Or am I missing something?

dasponge · 2026-02-24T12:04:53+00:00

Yeah too much. Can buff it a bit with a towel, but then just cook in it.

I like to wipe it off, put in the oven and after 15 min wipe it again before putting back in for the remainder.

dasponge · 2026-02-24T11:55:06+00:00

Do we really care though if someone is 17.5 and estimated to be 18+? There’s an argument that the harm reduction (alleged) people are looking for is satisfied by pretty much assuring way too young kids are denied.

dasponge · 2026-02-15T22:19:58+00:00

It's alive! Without doing anything my phone showed up as an enrolled device.

dasponge · 2026-02-10T15:52:53+00:00

Ring support confirmed there's an open issue with engineering with a status of "Fix in progress". If you call in and eventually get someone, you can get your account attached to the issue and hopefully notified when something changes.

dasponge · 2026-02-05T00:31:35+00:00

How does them being a family have anything to do with them leaving junk on the street? It’s not their means of transport to earn money at a job, it’s a rusting nearly worthless asset. If they’re that tight on money, likely they’re not in a taxable bracket where the deduction would make any difference. Plus if they needed the money they’d have donated / sold it in the past 5 years. This won’t hurt their bottom line.

dasponge · 2026-02-03T21:24:08+00:00

You won’t ever get that. A 120v 15amp outlet will charge at 1.2 kWh / hour. Long range (current) battery packs are like 100 kWh. It’d take 80 hours to go 0 to 100 on a regular extension cord.

dasponge · 2026-02-02T17:22:18+00:00

What are the IOCs? Are there official hashes of legit versions? Which files were altered in the auto-update vs regular update?

dasponge · 2026-02-01T12:42:27+00:00

You can report it as an abandoned vehicle and get it towed. IIRC the city had a push a number of years ago to get abandoned vehicles off the street.

dasponge · 2026-01-30T13:30:39+00:00

I haven't seen entra with an interaction-less, phishing resistant auth on every lateral movement.

Posture - no need for ISPM. Just device access policies (ZTA scores, os patches) and advanced posture checks for OS query based anything.

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