[bluehawk]

I disagree completely. Sure, the change in feel is related to the accelerator, but it's the slowing down of the car that changes. In a gasoline car that would be referred to as "engine braking". Imagine if in your gas car, when the tank was full, it didn't engine brake. I can imagine people getting caught off guard when the car didn't slow down like they expect.

Muscle memory is very important, and having the car behave unexpectedly is bad.

[outworlder]

For non-Tesla cars, the effect is really minimal. As in, noone expects to actually "break" at a stop light with the regen only. Yes, I have tried, even with the Leaf's "B" mode, which increases regen.

I've heard that the Tesla's regen is so aggressive that it will even turn on the brake lights. In that case then, I agree.