@@BladedAngel yeah my mom absolutely wants a AWD SUV, high off the ground so its easy and comfortable for her, and safer and better for the canadian winters, when you can be more than fine in FWD and even save gas.
@@BladedAngel A point to add for the AWD part, people think having a true 4x4 will save you in any situation... no it ain't, you can get up to speed faster, but once your car starts to slide on ice, it don't matter if your car is FWD, RWD, AWD, or 4x4, if you don't know how to control your car, your just as prone to crashing when you slide on ice as someone who is driving a FWD/RWD vehicle.
Yeah when I heard that I was confused that people really thought the brakes never had to be replaced. Makes me really question what other people on the road are driving around in.
I genuinely had no idea there were people dumb enough to think regenerative braking meant their brakes will never wear down and not recharge their battery during braking. But knowing the internet, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised
I find it surprising because at the "dawn" of the tech being in cars, I remember the commercial and ads tend to explain that part up front. Then I remember I'm from the edge of generations. Ad block and not much TV nor real research done by these folk literally a year or 2 younger, let alone more
Some people still thing there are indians in Puerto Rico. And a lot of american citizens can’t recognize the continent on a map. Trust me, stupidity knows no limits.
I actually never stopped to think "Regenerative Braking" could cause a misconception, since it was taught to me in the context of energy conversion and conservation in physics class
It's like the "Samurai Plus" from the movie 'The Platform'. Every time you cut with the knife, it gets sharper. Which makes no sense. Same for brakes, they don't just repair themselves out of thin air. If regenerative brakes actually regenerated themselves, why don't regenerative gold bars exist yet?
you'll only be able to grow organic brake pads as they're made out of organic material. If you want to grow anything else like ceramic or metallic you'll need to grow them in a lab like the pros do.
as someone who didnt quite understand this until i got new tires and brakes. the car is more responsive in almost all regards, the tires even fixed my alignment somehow.
THIS. Literally had to yell at my dad so he wouldn't buy the cheapest shit he found on eBay for his pad replacement- the kind of stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on a bicycle. There's a lot of things you can save money on, but don't save money on brake pads. Get something from a reputable manufacturer. It won't save your wallet buying the cheapest ones, but it can save your life buying the actually good ones...
mehhhh tires are arguable. if you’re driving hard at all then yes good tires are needed but if you’re just driving to work and back and getting groceries a relatively cheap tire will do. however brakes are god damn important when you’re cruising 120 kmh (70ish mph, i’m canadian) and i wouldn’t wanna be without them
@@sirhamalot110 some of the cheaper tires have been known to blow up at normal highway speeds and have killed people due to the loss of control in the car.
Tires are the only point of contact your two tonne metal box has with the road. They're the only thing preventing you from sliding off the road and crashing. If you can at all afford it, get at least decent quality tires.
@@MaddJakd Not surprising. FFS the absolute belief in Autonomy of anything is about the biggest danger to humanity right now, yet it's about the greatest irony there is.
Nah, that would only lead to them thinking they never have to plug it in because BraKiNg GeNeRaTeS tEh pOWeR! And if you think I'm being pessimistic, let me tell you a true story: I once had to shatter the dreams of a friend of mine who was halfway into converting his car to run on hydrogen, had started building a big hydrogen separator which he planned to hook up to, I kid you not, HIS ALTERNATOR. It's free power, baby!
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey Inventive if hopelessly naive. You'd think if he could build a functioning seperator he'd know how electricity was made and the costs involved. Anyways you can't fight stupid, just distract it.
i think this misconception is only possible in english. In german its called "Rekuperieren" and 50% of the people cant even spell it correctly. Here if people talk about rekuperieren noones thinks of breaks regrowing. Also i dont think its a common misconception that people believe breaks grow back, i think there are just some few idiots who believe that.
I think there's a real case for "overdrive" being used outside of the car world for the opposite of it's application here. In the US we also tend to call those higher gears "cruising gears"
@@MaddJakd yeah I think I might've seen it on engineering explained, gearbox output faster than engine or something like that, maybe it was Koenisegg not sure
see, whatever the reason behind calling it an "overdrive gear" is, its not a good one once you think about it for a few minutes. you tell someone it's an overdrive gear, and the logical thing to think is that it makes you drive over your usual maximum speed, especially since most things outside of the car world use the word overdrive in that context. if you tell someone its a cruising gear, they instantly know what the gear is for. one name gets the purpose of the feature across in one word with no extra explanation required, and the other name requires you to explain what it does almost every time if that person isn't already a car person.
In hindsight, overdrive makes sense as a term. Assuming your car has a 6 speed automatic transmission, the car will typically be geared in such a way that the distance between the 4th and 5th gear ratios is narrower than the distance between 5th and 6th. One gear over drive. “Cruising gears” makes far more sense.
I'm glad you covered the loan stuff; I also see a lot of people making mistakes on floating APR and ballon loans. There also seems to be a huge misunderstanding of cost to fix vs cost to replace as an equivalent or replacement of comparing two annual cost to own numbers.
I hate how I had to explain it, but I legit see people on Linkedin and Facebook brag "This is the future, I don't even need to replace brakes!!" This video won't make a dent in that misconception, but at least I can educate the few who do watch my channel
You have overdrive wrong, kinda. Your c7 for example have both 7th and 8th gears as overdrive, overdrive is when the output speed is greater than the input speed so any gear ratio lower than 1:1.
I was looking for this comment. If he had an actual manual transmission then gear 1-4 would be power gears and 5-7 would be overdrive. And based simply on gearing your highest gear will be your fastest gear, without factoring in anything else he should be able to go faster in 8th than 7th.
@@este_marco or its aerodynamically limited. There's a bunch of reasons for a vehicle to have a certain top speed. My only point was that gearing isn't the reason for his top speed.
As a european i find crazy the rates on loans in the US for people with a "bad" credit score P.S. I'm French and over here there is no credit score everyone has the same rates, the rate just depends on the bank.
@@i_am_terom4810 well you still need to be carefull when you get a loan but you'll get the same rate as every other person but the banks can still screw you over if you don't read the terms.
I've never taken a loan in my life and I'll try to keep it that way. I've got a house and car, without any loan. I'm still not in any good financial situation, but I think I would be worse off if I had taken a loan.
another one is "bigger brakes make you stop faster" they don't. if you can lock up the wheels, your brakes are fine for normal driving. performance brakes are better at cooling down when being used constantly so you get less brake fade, which can be a problem on the track or if you're just driving the car really hard. they have never made you stop any faster than normal brakes. however, better tires *will* actually help you stop faster.
@@este_marco I suppose if you drive a lot of mountain roads, some performance brakes would probably be a good idea. my stock ass brakes locked up at 75 mph on the highway, sorta scared the shit out of me. but yea at higher speeds stock brakes can get too hot too fast to be as effective. especially drum brakes f*ck drum brakes
After the first two misconceptions I'm picturing a "living" car: with bones, flesh and skin instead of metals and plastics, capable of repairing small damages by itself 😦
@@segaiuolo I think he's talking about that Terzo Millennio thing. So what it does is run a charge through the carbon fiber that MAY THEORECTALLY cause the carbon to kinda-sorta form dendrites in cracks with a potential difference across them? maybe? Even if that theoretically might happen, that just cannibalizes the ajacent carbon fibers, and the dendrites would have zero structural strength. It's basically just one of those concept cars made of 99% tiktok marketing bullshit and 1% pseudoscience to seduce science illiterate investors to throw money in Lambo's direction.
My personal misconception with the cars in childhood was - I thought that when you take the wheel off / on, you have to put it directly on axle....this all because I disassembled lots of diecast toys.
When I was young I thought clutches were 2 metal discs, one with a bunch of pins on it and the other having holes for them to fit into. My little brain could never quite figure out how you could roll from a stop :D
I am with you on the safety features. On my roadster they are almost all off (competition mode, so just the braking to keep the car from losing control in most extreme situations) and my SUV I've tried to turn off all the rest, although recently the dealer uploaded an upgrade and turned them all back on without letting me know they reset everything. I first noticed when the lane sensing started fighting me when I had to lean on the outside line while passing a semi leaning on center, and the lane centering kept trying to push me back into the semi. I have to go back to the dealer because it appears the update won't let it turn off - the best one can do is make it ping at you when it thinks you're deviating from the lane. I think all those driving aids just make people lazy (unsafe) drivers.
I despise lane keeping assist. I remember test driving a Kia that had that feature. The car kept FIGHTING with me because I wanted to switch lanes. That feature is way too aggressive.
I hate automatic lights/ daylights. For those who know nothing about cars, these settings for lights makes it seem that light will turn on by themselves without input from the driver. And then you have those driving at night who see the road ahead illuminated, thinking their lights are on. Not knowing that they are only running day lights, and others behind them can't see them clearly. P.s. Generally these safety features/ technology aren't making cars safer, they are making drivers more incompetent of performing nesicary tasks to be a safe driver.
Headlights should turn on at all time when the car is running and turn off automatically when it is not. Head lights are a quick and easy way to know when a car is moving or about to and nobody likes to forget their lights on and come back to a dead battery.
at first glance, I thought you were talking about automatic headlight controls. but yeah, daytime running lights that you can mistake for headlights when it gets dark, but don't turn on the marker lights - those are bad.
Tbh I can't say much in this regard, I have an old Volvo where you can't turn the headlights off... So I just drive with dipped beams on constantly no need for DRLs!
@@__-fm5qv This actually doesn't contradict a thing. For your and others safety, during day time either turn on headlights or DRLs. Both are good. "Auto" setting might be confusing for some.
I always thought that re-treads were only for semi truck tires. I learned something today. That APR topic made my eyes glaze over until you mentioned insane monthly terms.
1:36 actually regen brakes are less effective at higher speeds and more effective at lower speeds. Think of it like this, regen brakes recover a certain amount of kinetic energy in a fixed time. The thing is the faster you're going in a car your kinetic speed increases exponentially. (K = (1/2)mv^2). K = 2m when v = 2 and K = 8m when v = 4. Because regen brakes recover a fixed amount of energy over a period of time, as the total kinetic energy decreases, removing a fixed amount of energy over time has a greater impact on speed. In my own experience in electric cars this has been my experience too. At highway speeds the regen brakes aren't too great especially if you need to stop quick, but they're great for heavy traffic because they are more effective and have greater deceleration power at low speeds. Still think it's stupid people think regen brakes mean it literally regrows brakes though.
A lot of it also has to do with how the regen feel is programed. As long as the total regenerated energy is within the acceptable range of the battery, and the braking force is within the torque range of the motor, the manufacturer can program whatever they want. Often times this means using a constant deceleration factor, while other times it means mimicking engine braking behavior as seen in an IC engine (more brake force at higher revs, less at lower).
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 While it's true a lot of electric cars that are trying to mimic the feel of a ICE car, as far as I'm aware this isn't commonplace. I have only regularly driven two electric cars: a BMW i3 and a Tesla Model X. Both cars have their regen force stronger at lower speeds. It's very difficult to have a regen system that is dynamically similar to engine braking. Having more brake force at higher speeds would be very inefficient because a regen system is locked by the amount of total kinetic energy it can recoup. Trying to recreate engine braking would mean having the mediocre braking force at high speed and then purposely handicapping the regen braking ability at low speeds which effectively kills any substantial braking forces. The whole purpose of regen braking is to recover kinetic energy that you would normally lose while braking during regular driving. In most daily driving situations in an electric car with regen braking you do not need to touch the brake pedal at all outside emergency situations. This is why mechanical brakes on EVs last way longer than ICE cars; they are not used nearly as often. Recreating engine braking would defeat the purpose of this. You can't drive an ICE car with just engine braking as your braking force because you'll crash pretty quick.
@@IsaPudiyapura not really, i can engine brake entire highway until i reach exit or something happened, lol But that only work on manual cars, when i drive my friends automatic cars, maaan i do use the brakes often, lol Auto dosnt give lots of engine brake feedback under certain RPM, unless i manually shift it down, lol Funny thing is, CVT tend have bigger engine brake feedback than manual cars, lol Even on my scooter, i rarely use brakes on decelerating, lol
@@megimargareth4015 true, but you still need mechanical brakes to complete trips. In an electric car with regen braking you can go from a parking spot to a garage driveway and park there without ever having to even touch the brake pedal.
Fun Fact: despite Tesla's 0% Advertising thing, which may include games, they still appear in Gran Turismo. also f in the replies for that orange 86 that spun out
@@damilolaakanni nope, the only electric cars in FH4 are the RAESR Tachyon, Jaguar i-Pace, VW ID.R, and Rimac Concept_2. I also meant current games, and they don't support FH4 anymore.
@@TopiasSalakka I'm someone who lives in the north (top half of PA) who exclusively used all season tires, no winter and no summer tires. Going from a FWD 2014 Ford Fusion to an AWD 2016 Audi S4 was a massive difference in the snow/ice. With the Fusion I legit could not get going from some stops and would have to back up a bit before going forward, or just roll slowly through the intersection in some areas which was very sketchy at stop signs. I have not had that problem once since getting the AWD S4 and I can take turns faster on ice or snow than before without sliding. I don't have experience about the difference in snow/ice capabilities between RWD and AWD, but the difference is massive between FWD and AWD
From the first introduction of the idea, I've said computerized safety systems will mostly just convince people to pay less attention, especially with buggy early versions. It's like how most people who have never driven without ABS can't thresh-hold brake.
@@oneal3224 I always have difficulty breathing in those masks but can't provide a diagnosed medical reason for it. I said from the start that I never try to get within 6 feet of anyone on purpose anyway and if someone is that close to me, it was their own choice. People should be able to keep their distance and say things like "Excuse me, I need something from where you're standing. Could you back up a bit?" but common sense doesn't effect government.
A lot of safety tech annoys the hell out of me. Good when it works, but people get complacent and rely on a very much fallible machine. People merge without looking because they have blind spot assistance. People don't pay attention to the car directly in front because they have collision warning/mitigation. People drive like they're invincible in crossovers and trucks because they think more size = more safe (guess what, it's the opposite because more mass has more energy to dissipate, especially since many crossovers cheat their way into being classified as an offroad vehicle and lack things like side impact protection). People drive dangerously in low friction conditions (or, god forbid, forego snow tires in winter) because they think traction control, AWD, and torque vectoring will somehow magically create grip where there is none, and I seriously want to slap Subaru for continuously making this misconception worse every year as snow starts falling and they bang on about their "full-time symmetrical AWD" (a fancy way of saying the most basic, low tech form of AWD on the market). I'm all for making cars as safe as possible, but hate when people become reliant on these far from perfect, very much not magic technologies, and hate it far more when manufacturers ENCOURAGE this dangerous behaviour in their advertizing. Hope you enjoyed my novel, I'll be signing copies at the door.
I'm all for NOT making cars safe as possible. Only elite drivers should have the ability to drive. No ABS, no power steering, big gas guzzling V8s RWD only
@Black Man they're going to use that fact to fuel their anti car propaganda and ban all non pussified electric cars. It's just like covid, or 9/11. "bUt iTs sAferrr." Safety is for weak cowardly pussies.
I was going to say I can't believe people actually think brakes can regrow, but then I remembered that I live on planet earth and it is totally believable.
The loan part got me there…. I’m glad you covered this and many good misconceptions topics. Now I know better and I’ll crunch the numbers before I go to buy another car.
While Bladed Angel is annoyed that only his list videos get popular. His misconception based videos are really helpful to people, so he should at least feel proud of those.
This is only if you super-savvy. In general, choose what do you want to drive, and calculate if you can afford the monthly payment. If all the people did "number crunch", not many would drive the cars they want to drive.
Speaking of shoulder checking, I found a way to be able to adjust my mirrors in a way where I don’t need to shoulder check because that blind spot is gone but occasionally I’ll do it anyway just in case
You'd be better off just getting virgin tires. Eventually, every retread will separate. It's a matter of when, not if. All of those big pieces of rubber on the side of the highway are from retreads.
Good on you for talking about the finance of buying cars! Sure, there are plenty if videos on finance channels that cover the topic, but for you to do it reaches a more specific audience. You're right that most ate hyperfocused on the monthly payment. "What kind of payment are you looking to be at?" is practically the very first question a car salesman will ask you on the lot. I would like to add that beyond shifting one's focus to bottom line instead of the monthly payment, another pitfall is financing the entire purchase with no money down. That is another huge sapper of money over the long term. Keep up the good content!
My experience is that regen brakes are actually better at low speeds. I find that at low speeds I can usually make them eat up the entire kinetic energy of the car pretty quickly, whereas at freeeway type speeds, even modest braking will quickly max out the charge rate of our Hybrid Corolla's battery.
You still use the brakes a lot. Regen braking is very weak, like 0.2 G's on the very strong end. By very strong, I mean I'm pretty sure that's what Le Mans and F1 cars pull.
Regenerative brakes were limited in F1 because teams could use it to break more quickly than others. It's just not worth a huge investment on your everyday car.
@@someweeb3650 some people I know, I have golf gte, hybrid. They had to replace the brakes duo to rust, if you are driving like an average person, rust is a bigger factor than wear
Less than 12% of the probability of your tank full of highly flammable fuel spreading all over you and bursting into flames. And yes, better crash safety scores than ALL of your gas burners. You have been fact checked.
The overdrive thing is something I learned from my dad in his Honda Accord. The car had 5 gears, but he pointed out that he could hit top speed in 4th, and 5th was the overdrive gear for efficient cruising.
Your explanation on overdrive is technically correct, but doesn't really explain *why* it's called "overdrive." The term refers to any gear that allows the wheels to spin faster than the engine, and rose to prevalence in an era where the top gear of your average 3-speed transmission would spin the wheels at a 1:1 ratio. When a fourth gear was added that reduced this ratio to, say, 0.67, it was referred to as "overdrive." Technically the 8L90 in your Z06 has two overdrive gears: 7th (0.8455) and 8th (0.6515). 6th is 1:1.
Also overdrive gears back in the day did make the car "faster" at least in terms of top speed. As the engine was powerful enough to push past a 1:1 gear ratio, and therefore to get the maximum top speed an overdrive is required. Its just the case that these days the top overdrive gear normally doesn't give you the highest top speed.
Most cars have one or two overdrive gears, although they might not both be "cruising gears". It might have been better put if he called it a granny gear, which is universally known as a cruising gear. Then again, a friend with an Alfa 164S has a transmission with its highest gearing being 1:1 in 5th, so no overdrive, but it still is his cruising gear. It all just depends on the car, the transmission ratios, and the rear end.
@@bentracy7463 Yes it does, but a lot of cars don't just use overdrive gears for cruising or fuel economy like ridge chaser makes it seem. A lot of cars have overdrive gears for higher top speed.
@@bentracy7463 Granny gear ain't universally known as a cruising gear, in fact that's the first time I've ever heard of it used as such. A granny gear is generally a super short gear (technically 1st gear, but a lot of shifters dont mark them as first) found on 4WDs and trucks, it's called a granny gear because it's uber slow, usually having a 5:1 ish ratio.
Need a video on proper setup for driving. To many people have their mirrors set to see behind them when they should be set to see into the blind spot. If you look into your rearview mirror and a car is coming up beside you then when that car moves out of the rearview mirrors view it should be in your side mirror and once it's beyond that it should be in your peripheral vision. there are only a few reasons why you should turn your head when driving.
Oh yes with the safety features, my dads 2021 Honda Accord with Lane Keep Assist has caused him to nearly crash multiple times. I’m happy with my 1975 International Scout lmao
Excellent advice. A note on overdrive. Back when that phrase started, you could get a bit more out of top gear. Not much, and not quickly, but if you had the room to stay in it you could squeeze about 10 mph out of most cars. But for modern cars you are completely right.
OK the overdrive thing was helpful to me because my new motorcycle says "Overdrive 6" on the engine and now I know what that means, lmao. I sort've intuited how I needed to shift by listening to/feeling how the engine responded in each gear, but now I know WHY it's acting like that. Thanks.
I’m leaving a like on this video for the algorithm. That being said, I am not a car guy at all and don’t know a lot , but I got to retreaded tyre, and I’m like I can’t continue, how are people this stupid, honest, how would brakes regrow, do you not hear them whin??? Do they not feel funny when you hit the breaks???? Also if tyres can be retreaded, they would still have aged rubber, I don’t know how it works but I would rather have new tyres, my tyres have the tread almost finished, when I noticed I started saving for new tyre. I’m leaving my like, but people are stupid, I can’t continue to watch 🤦🏽♂️
Im 14 and i knew how overdrive works and i was surprised that so many people think about this in this way. For me it is obvious that if the top speed is on lower gear, you cant go faster on next gear
@@gombka1144 yeah if you are not mecanicly inclined you know that stuff but if you drove cars that might not have had it bevore i can see how sb could get confused there
Well, I've tried overtaking on a crowded highway before without downshifting from top gear first, and it's a bit scary feeling the car refuses to accelerate with your foot on the floor.
If you have no credit and want to build credit as long as you have a descent paying job I recommend 3 years tops or paying off your vehicle at the end of the 3rd year. Your credit on minimum payments will reach over 720 by the 3rd year. Do auto payments so you never miss a payment. I bought a car in 2019 and got approved for a loan without credit because of my job. I just paid it off this winter. My credit score is over 720. That's nearly 3 years of payments on the minimum. Now I have an excellent credit score and can get approved for bigger loans with lower APR to make payment cheaper if I wanted another nice vehicle. It's not the best way to build credit but it's one that you have to have the right circumstances to attain. A credit card is the best method as you'll be spending money on gas and groceries. Though I recommend having a debit card to save 10 cents on gas. I've been to gas stations that charged 50 cents for using a card regardless of credit or debit and that makes me salty.
HOW? How can people be so stupid as to think regenerative braking regenerates their BRAKES?? That's... Just idiotic. And also the tires... The tires, people are so stupid sometimes
Lol overdrive makes you faster that’s like with a manual 6th gear gets you faster to 100kmh 😂 yeah nah bro when I drive to work I have like this aweshome corner then I go relatively slow in 3rd gear like 50kmh then floor it till 120kmh keeps being fun 🤩 then shove it from 3rd to 6th gear my engine goes like BRAAAAAAAAA To Brrrrrrrrrrr It’s just funny keeps me smiling behind the wheel
It’s crazy how all the Silicon Valley guys are ignoring basic laws of the universe, matter can not simple appear or be made of nothing, matter must come in, in order for matter to be made, brakes can’t just keep remaking themselves without adding literal metal to the brakes, tires can not simple grow back without any material being added back, they kinda dumb
When it come to loans for anything, I'd recommend looking up a compound interest calculator, figure out how much you can afford with the LOWEST time frame, and your APR. If you look at the total end cost and think, "alright I would buy the car for that all things considered" then go ahead. If you look at and think "Damm thats almost double the cost of the car" I would rethink your purchase or save more so you don't have as much on the loan.
The apr one is very important. I almost got fukd when buying a first vehicle. I only was able to get out of the loan because they lost my license and i didn't provide another copy so the bank took back the loan. I didn't do my homework fully before buying and the person i did ask didn't know crap about smart purchasing. Now i bought a car cash on hand no payments.
I knew the first one for ages because of my Chevy Volt. Fantastic car IMO at the early stage of the electric age. Brakes last ages on the volt, and it helps range and with some gradual stops. Just switch to aggressive regeneration and decelerate, then stop once you're already very slow.
New driver here, thank you so much for these videos. I'm trying really hard to make sure that I'm not just another idiot on the road who thinks he's a better driver than everyone else or thinks he knows it all about cars. These videos help me loads.
Man some people have terrible car payments. 29% apr is insane. I was 23 when I bought my car at 60 months and 6.99% and I would not want to go any longer than 5 years. How do people agree to stuf like that. I guess low payments and they just assume they will sell the car in a few years and hope to get it all back or hope to get someone to take over the loan.
I actually learned somehting. thank you. I always wondered what were an overdrive. I've always heard about it in school, but never understood what it is. now I understand it's a ridiculously long extra gear that makes you save fuel made especially for cruising
I'm unsure about this overdrive thing, my car is old and Auto, it has an overdrive option but I think it's completely different to what you're talking about. Im a little confused
Regenerative braking is a techknowledgy that had been around since the first hybrids 20 years ago like the prius. Telsa fans try so hard to be smart its embarassing
i dont know if this applies to the us. But u should only take out a loan for a house taking a loan out for a car isnt smart. if u need to pay the car back over 5 years the amount of thing that can fuck you over is crazy. but people dont have patience and want everthing fast.
in addition you still have to turn on the normal brakes even when your just casually stopping. eddy currents are great for stopping from fast to slow, but not from slow to zero.
My overdrive gear (4th) kicks on at around 30 mph, but it accelerates like a snail 😂 If someone ever says "kick it into overdrive" I'm gonna shake my head and sigh.
I can use my overdrive all the way down to 25 mph! But then again its a manual so I decide to do that... Still slow, steady traffic means I can get great fuel economy with my engine ticking over at 1000 rpm lol.
Despite the fact that it looks like a PowerPoint presentation over video... Your videos are so entertaining and interesting, keep up the good work! (I know there's much more effort than a PowerPoint)
Be warned: a vampire on a motorcycle is invisible both on a mirror and sensors so if you kill someone bc you were to lazy to look over your shoulder, tell that to the officer 👌
Makes sense that he has to explain this to Tesla drivers, they have less intelligence than a potato. Also, ain’t no way they’re calling the tire compounds “blends” like freakin coffee.
I haven't heard of retreading tires since the 80s. It was the poor mans way of saving money. It was also common with semi-trucks. Thats why you see random tire tread on the side of the road. I'm fairly sure it is illegal here in Florida. The cheap thing now is used tires, which is almost as dumb. Honestly the last place to be cheap is your tires. If you can't afford Y rated tires, you should have bought a Nissan Versa. There's no shame in driving what you can afford and being safe.
I'm always amazed on how much people refuse to spend money on the thing that takes them to work and the store. I've seen people reusing oil filters because they just didn't want to buy a new one.
It’s crazy how financially illiterate majority of Americans are, especially when it comes to credit and loans. It really should be a required class in highschool at very least. I have only a $2,000 limit on my credit card I barely use and I still have a 764 credit score after only 2-3 years of having an account. It is very easy as long as you are responsible and don’t spend money you don’t have
I am very new to cars, but the regenerative brakes sound insanely cool. Its amazing that it can salvage some of the thermal energy of the breaks and turn it into usable energy for the system. Thats incredible tech! :D
That's the neat thing about electricity: every motor is secretly a generator, and every generator is secretly a motor. This also causes part of the weird looking torque and power curves for motors when compared to combustion engines: as the motor shaft gets spun around by the electromagnets, it STILL does that electric generation thing, just fighting against the field that spun it up to begin with Because of this, the rpm of a brushless motor is proportional to the input voltage, and it will try to draw as much current as it needs to carry the current load TO that rpm
In my country's driving exams, if you don't shoulder check for everything (lane merging, initiating drive, anything that means your car isn't going in a straight line, basically) it's an instant fail. They sure beat that habit into me and saved my life a couple times.
This has to do with the point of the blind spot detection, I work for a car dealership, we had a customer who got into an accident because they never checked their blind spot and caused an accident, they tried to blame the blind spot detection for not working and saying that it's our fault that the accident happened, long story short they got mad when we told them it's not out fault the camera didn't pick up the car and they still have to do a shoulder check no matter what and they decided not to come back again
6. AWD will save your ass in any situation..
Yeah, this is another huge dangerous misconception. I guess Part 2 maybe?
@@BladedAngel i would love a part 2
@@BladedAngel yeah my mom absolutely wants a AWD SUV, high off the ground so its easy and comfortable for her, and safer and better for the canadian winters, when you can be more than fine in FWD and even save gas.
@@BladedAngel A point to add for the AWD part, people think having a true 4x4 will save you in any situation... no it ain't, you can get up to speed faster, but once your car starts to slide on ice, it don't matter if your car is FWD, RWD, AWD, or 4x4, if you don't know how to control your car, your just as prone to crashing when you slide on ice as someone who is driving a FWD/RWD vehicle.
@@BladedAngel PLEASE continue your “noobs guide to car parts” series
TIL: There are people who thought regenerative braking meant your BRAKES regenerate.
I wish I hadn't learnt that.
Same here. I cringed so hard at the thought of people believing that.
Yeah when I heard that I was confused that people really thought the brakes never had to be replaced. Makes me really question what other people on the road are driving around in.
That was the saddest thing I have heard this week
Yea i just paused and contemplated humanity for a minute.
I need a TW for this level of stupid.
I genuinely had no idea there were people dumb enough to think regenerative braking meant their brakes will never wear down and not recharge their battery during braking. But knowing the internet, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised
I never even knew regenerative braking was a thing lmao
I find it surprising because at the "dawn" of the tech being in cars, I remember the commercial and ads tend to explain that part up front.
Then I remember I'm from the edge of generations. Ad block and not much TV nor real research done by these folk literally a year or 2 younger, let alone more
I was thinking the same thing. How can people be this dumb?!
@@MaddJakd most of the people thinking that arent even young, they're just rich snobs
Some people still thing there are indians in Puerto Rico.
And a lot of american citizens can’t recognize the continent on a map.
Trust me, stupidity knows no limits.
I actually never stopped to think "Regenerative Braking" could cause a misconception, since it was taught to me in the context of energy conversion and conservation in physics class
It hasn’t ever caused misconception… nobody has ever thought this
@@Bianchiboy did you not watch the video mate
@@Bianchiboy "Just because you don't have dumb friends, doesn't mean idiots don't exist" ~Someone idk, I don't remember
It's like the "Samurai Plus" from the movie 'The Platform'. Every time you cut with the knife, it gets sharper. Which makes no sense. Same for brakes, they don't just repair themselves out of thin air. If regenerative brakes actually regenerated themselves, why don't regenerative gold bars exist yet?
this "-ing" changes everything
If you wanna go faster, don't use overdrive, use the Rapido. It's the R on your shifter.
I've always thought it stood for Rocket...The more you know.
No no the R stands for reverse
@@SuperNovaHeights_ The R stands for r/whooosh
@@inventiveowl395 oh, very clever, aren’t we?
@@SuperNovaHeights_ tsk tsk.. You could've said "... Rn't we?" xdd
i fucking lost it at brakes regrowing
imma start farming brake calipers
I started my brake shoe farm last week and they're all being phased out, I can't believe this
Great idea haha, who want to be millionaire go farming.
hhahhhahhhahhhahhhahhhhhaaaaaaa......I need to move to Mars
you'll only be able to grow organic brake pads as they're made out of organic material. If you want to grow anything else like ceramic or metallic you'll need to grow them in a lab like the pros do.
We all know that we’re all just joking around duh 🙄
Tires and brakes can totally change how a car responds in a quick situation and definitely need to be maintained. It will save your life and your car.
This is a very underrated idea
they literally are how your car responds lmfao
I agree
as someone who didnt quite understand this until i got new tires and brakes. the car is more responsive in almost all regards, the tires even fixed my alignment somehow.
I'm pretty sure my grandmother's caravan needs a brake change.. that thing REALLY does not want to stop.
Another mention should be finding the cheapest tires/brakes is fine. Horrible tires are super dangerous, and horrible brakes might fail
as I like to say stick to the cheap reliable brand powerstop is the cheapest brand i will get but still wont give me anxiety
THIS.
Literally had to yell at my dad so he wouldn't buy the cheapest shit he found on eBay for his pad replacement- the kind of stuff I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on a bicycle.
There's a lot of things you can save money on, but don't save money on brake pads. Get something from a reputable manufacturer.
It won't save your wallet buying the cheapest ones, but it can save your life buying the actually good ones...
mehhhh tires are arguable. if you’re driving hard at all then yes good tires are needed but if you’re just driving to work and back and getting groceries a relatively cheap tire will do. however brakes are god damn important when you’re cruising 120 kmh (70ish mph, i’m canadian) and i wouldn’t wanna be without them
@@sirhamalot110 some of the cheaper tires have been known to blow up at normal highway speeds and have killed people due to the loss of control in the car.
Tires are the only point of contact your two tonne metal box has with the road. They're the only thing preventing you from sliding off the road and crashing.
If you can at all afford it, get at least decent quality tires.
A minor face save with regenerative braking would be to call it generative braking as it generates electricity to recharge the batteries/capacitors.
These kids will think the brakes literally spawn from the ether every time you hit the brake pedal....
@@MaddJakd Not surprising. FFS the absolute belief in Autonomy of anything is about the biggest danger to humanity right now, yet it's about the greatest irony there is.
Nah, that would only lead to them thinking they never have to plug it in because BraKiNg GeNeRaTeS tEh pOWeR!
And if you think I'm being pessimistic, let me tell you a true story: I once had to shatter the dreams of a friend of mine who was halfway into converting his car to run on hydrogen, had started building a big hydrogen separator which he planned to hook up to, I kid you not, HIS ALTERNATOR. It's free power, baby!
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey Inventive if hopelessly naive. You'd think if he could build a functioning seperator he'd know how electricity was made and the costs involved. Anyways you can't fight stupid, just distract it.
i think this misconception is only possible in english. In german its called "Rekuperieren" and 50% of the people cant even spell it correctly. Here if people talk about rekuperieren noones thinks of breaks regrowing. Also i dont think its a common misconception that people believe breaks grow back, i think there are just some few idiots who believe that.
In the uk we call overdrive gears cruising gears which probably makes more sense
I think there's a real case for "overdrive" being used outside of the car world for the opposite of it's application here. In the US we also tend to call those higher gears "cruising gears"
@@MaddJakd yeah I think I might've seen it on engineering explained, gearbox output faster than engine or something like that, maybe it was Koenisegg not sure
see, whatever the reason behind calling it an "overdrive gear" is, its not a good one once you think about it for a few minutes. you tell someone it's an overdrive gear, and the logical thing to think is that it makes you drive over your usual maximum speed, especially since most things outside of the car world use the word overdrive in that context. if you tell someone its a cruising gear, they instantly know what the gear is for. one name gets the purpose of the feature across in one word with no extra explanation required, and the other name requires you to explain what it does almost every time if that person isn't already a car person.
Thats just you that calls them that.
We still call it overdrive.
In hindsight, overdrive makes sense as a term. Assuming your car has a 6 speed automatic transmission, the car will typically be geared in such a way that the distance between the 4th and 5th gear ratios is narrower than the distance between 5th and 6th.
One gear over drive.
“Cruising gears” makes far more sense.
I'm glad you covered the loan stuff; I also see a lot of people making mistakes on floating APR and ballon loans. There also seems to be a huge misunderstanding of cost to fix vs cost to replace as an equivalent or replacement of comparing two annual cost to own numbers.
my dad told me to aim for 18-24 months when buying a car if you cant afford the payments at that range you cant afford it PERIOD
@@Bobis32 honestly the best advice is to not even buy it if you can't afford it.
That first one is just sad
I hate how I had to explain it, but I legit see people on Linkedin and Facebook brag "This is the future, I don't even need to replace brakes!!"
This video won't make a dent in that misconception, but at least I can educate the few who do watch my channel
@@BladedAngel actually all of these in the video are sad people are just stupid
How can people be so stupid
@@BladedAngel I feel like anyone who receives reccomenndation about car videos already knows this....
I cant believe this from a standpoint of living in Germany i never heard this stupid stuff
You have overdrive wrong, kinda. Your c7 for example have both 7th and 8th gears as overdrive, overdrive is when the output speed is greater than the input speed so any gear ratio lower than 1:1.
I was looking for this comment. If he had an actual manual transmission then gear 1-4 would be power gears and 5-7 would be overdrive. And based simply on gearing your highest gear will be your fastest gear, without factoring in anything else he should be able to go faster in 8th than 7th.
It's also possible to have a car without an overdrive gear.
@@redneckfisherxxx if he have a speed limiter maybe he cant hit 8th rev limit
@@este_marco or its aerodynamically limited. There's a bunch of reasons for a vehicle to have a certain top speed. My only point was that gearing isn't the reason for his top speed.
@@redneckfisherxxx - Yup. I had one.
As a european i find crazy the rates on loans in the US for people with a "bad" credit score
P.S. I'm French and over here there is no credit score everyone has the same rates, the rate just depends on the bank.
Ayoo, young French boi here, glad to learn that i may not get buttfucked by banks once i'm an adult !
@@lilpoop24 because he's a young French boi, duh smh my head
@@i_am_terom4810 well you still need to be carefull when you get a loan but you'll get the same rate as every other person but the banks can still screw you over if you don't read the terms.
I've never taken a loan in my life and I'll try to keep it that way. I've got a house and car, without any loan. I'm still not in any good financial situation, but I think I would be worse off if I had taken a loan.
lucky, i'm thinking about getting out of the states soon. might go to portugal, seems pretty nice over there
another one is "bigger brakes make you stop faster"
they don't. if you can lock up the wheels, your brakes are fine for normal driving. performance brakes are better at cooling down when being used constantly so you get less brake fade, which can be a problem on the track or if you're just driving the car really hard. they have never made you stop any faster than normal brakes. however, better tires *will* actually help you stop faster.
at high speed it's difficult for normal brakes to lock up. and even with slower speed the endurance is important
Pretty sure bigger brake discs help you stop faster or better
@@qwrqu5027 except if the limiting factor is the tires
@@qwrqu5027 a little more important for rotor and pad materials to be par
@@este_marco
I suppose if you drive a lot of mountain roads, some performance brakes would probably be a good idea.
my stock ass brakes locked up at 75 mph on the highway, sorta scared the shit out of me. but yea at higher speeds stock brakes can get too hot too fast to be as effective. especially drum brakes
f*ck drum brakes
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thanks, might need that in like 3 yrs
The most worrysome part about this video is learning that these are considered misconceptions to people actually driving cars.
“Regenerative braking makes your brakes grow back” the brakes have actually been injected with stem cells, so no they do not need to be replaced
XD
Thank you Einstein
lmao
After the first two misconceptions I'm picturing a "living" car: with bones, flesh and skin instead of metals and plastics, capable of repairing small damages by itself 😦
there's a lamborghini that can regenerate itself, live with that
Even in the Disney's Cars universe, they change tyres. The tyres are like their shoes and can break, and be replaced with new ones.
@@rand002_ I don't have to. Which Lamborghini?
@@segaiuolo I think he's talking about that Terzo Millennio thing. So what it does is run a charge through the carbon fiber that MAY THEORECTALLY cause the carbon to kinda-sorta form dendrites in cracks with a potential difference across them? maybe? Even if that theoretically might happen, that just cannibalizes the ajacent carbon fibers, and the dendrites would have zero structural strength. It's basically just one of those concept cars made of 99% tiktok marketing bullshit and 1% pseudoscience to seduce science illiterate investors to throw money in Lambo's direction.
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey checked it: nanotech! Right... *self slap on the forehead* I always forget about nanotech
My personal misconception with the cars in childhood was - I thought that when you take the wheel off / on, you have to put it directly on axle....this all because I disassembled lots of diecast toys.
When I was young I thought clutches were 2 metal discs, one with a bunch of pins on it and the other having holes for them to fit into.
My little brain could never quite figure out how you could roll from a stop :D
I am with you on the safety features. On my roadster they are almost all off (competition mode, so just the braking to keep the car from losing control in most extreme situations) and my SUV I've tried to turn off all the rest, although recently the dealer uploaded an upgrade and turned them all back on without letting me know they reset everything. I first noticed when the lane sensing started fighting me when I had to lean on the outside line while passing a semi leaning on center, and the lane centering kept trying to push me back into the semi. I have to go back to the dealer because it appears the update won't let it turn off - the best one can do is make it ping at you when it thinks you're deviating from the lane.
I think all those driving aids just make people lazy (unsafe) drivers.
Agreed. We should go back to the 80s style of driving
I despise lane keeping assist. I remember test driving a Kia that had that feature. The car kept FIGHTING with me because I wanted to switch lanes. That feature is way too aggressive.
I hate automatic lights/ daylights.
For those who know nothing about cars, these settings for lights makes it seem that light will turn on by themselves without input from the driver.
And then you have those driving at night who see the road ahead illuminated, thinking their lights are on. Not knowing that they are only running day lights, and others behind them can't see them clearly.
P.s. Generally these safety features/ technology aren't making cars safer, they are making drivers more incompetent of performing nesicary tasks to be a safe driver.
Headlights should turn on at all time when the car is running and turn off automatically when it is not. Head lights are a quick and easy way to know when a car is moving or about to and nobody likes to forget their lights on and come back to a dead battery.
There is a simple way to control it. Turn ON DRLs in the day and in the darkness - switch to headlights. No need to deal with "auto".
at first glance, I thought you were talking about automatic headlight controls. but yeah, daytime running lights that you can mistake for headlights when it gets dark, but don't turn on the marker lights - those are bad.
Tbh I can't say much in this regard, I have an old Volvo where you can't turn the headlights off... So I just drive with dipped beams on constantly no need for DRLs!
@@__-fm5qv This actually doesn't contradict a thing. For your and others safety, during day time either turn on headlights or DRLs. Both are good. "Auto" setting might be confusing for some.
I always thought that re-treads were only for semi truck tires. I learned something today.
That APR topic made my eyes glaze over until you mentioned insane monthly terms.
I always knew what regenerative brakes were but I'm amazed that people actually thought about it this way lol.
Should we call them recharging brake?
Wait, people actually think “regenerative braking” means your brakes regenerate themselves?
Oh my god
1:36 actually regen brakes are less effective at higher speeds and more effective at lower speeds. Think of it like this, regen brakes recover a certain amount of kinetic energy in a fixed time. The thing is the faster you're going in a car your kinetic speed increases exponentially. (K = (1/2)mv^2). K = 2m when v = 2 and K = 8m when v = 4. Because regen brakes recover a fixed amount of energy over a period of time, as the total kinetic energy decreases, removing a fixed amount of energy over time has a greater impact on speed.
In my own experience in electric cars this has been my experience too. At highway speeds the regen brakes aren't too great especially if you need to stop quick, but they're great for heavy traffic because they are more effective and have greater deceleration power at low speeds. Still think it's stupid people think regen brakes mean it literally regrows brakes though.
A lot of it also has to do with how the regen feel is programed. As long as the total regenerated energy is within the acceptable range of the battery, and the braking force is within the torque range of the motor, the manufacturer can program whatever they want. Often times this means using a constant deceleration factor, while other times it means mimicking engine braking behavior as seen in an IC engine (more brake force at higher revs, less at lower).
@@SupaKoopaTroopa64 While it's true a lot of electric cars that are trying to mimic the feel of a ICE car, as far as I'm aware this isn't commonplace. I have only regularly driven two electric cars: a BMW i3 and a Tesla Model X. Both cars have their regen force stronger at lower speeds.
It's very difficult to have a regen system that is dynamically similar to engine braking. Having more brake force at higher speeds would be very inefficient because a regen system is locked by the amount of total kinetic energy it can recoup. Trying to recreate engine braking would mean having the mediocre braking force at high speed and then purposely handicapping the regen braking ability at low speeds which effectively kills any substantial braking forces.
The whole purpose of regen braking is to recover kinetic energy that you would normally lose while braking during regular driving. In most daily driving situations in an electric car with regen braking you do not need to touch the brake pedal at all outside emergency situations. This is why mechanical brakes on EVs last way longer than ICE cars; they are not used nearly as often. Recreating engine braking would defeat the purpose of this. You can't drive an ICE car with just engine braking as your braking force because you'll crash pretty quick.
@@IsaPudiyapura not really, i can engine brake entire highway until i reach exit or something happened, lol
But that only work on manual cars, when i drive my friends automatic cars, maaan i do use the brakes often, lol
Auto dosnt give lots of engine brake feedback under certain RPM, unless i manually shift it down, lol
Funny thing is, CVT tend have bigger engine brake feedback than manual cars, lol
Even on my scooter, i rarely use brakes on decelerating, lol
@@megimargareth4015 true, but you still need mechanical brakes to complete trips. In an electric car with regen braking you can go from a parking spot to a garage driveway and park there without ever having to even touch the brake pedal.
@@IsaPudiyapura i doubt regereqtive braking would help you slow down under 5kmh
Henche the need for you to brake at exit gate or red lights, lol
Fun Fact: despite Tesla's 0% Advertising thing, which may include games, they still appear in Gran Turismo.
also f in the replies for that orange 86 that spun out
I believe there is at least one Tesla in Forza Horizon 4 as well.
@@damilolaakanni nope, the only electric cars in FH4 are the RAESR Tachyon, Jaguar i-Pace, VW ID.R, and Rimac Concept_2.
I also meant current games, and they don't support FH4 anymore.
If there are people who think regenerative braking means you "regenerate" brakes, I think we've been expecting a lot from people.
6. 4WD doesn’t make you invincible in the snow
Or thinking that AWD/4WD is a replacement for winter tires. It's not, it only helps you accelerate, winter tires help you brake and steer too.
@@TopiasSalakka I'm someone who lives in the north (top half of PA) who exclusively used all season tires, no winter and no summer tires. Going from a FWD 2014 Ford Fusion to an AWD 2016 Audi S4 was a massive difference in the snow/ice. With the Fusion I legit could not get going from some stops and would have to back up a bit before going forward, or just roll slowly through the intersection in some areas which was very sketchy at stop signs. I have not had that problem once since getting the AWD S4 and I can take turns faster on ice or snow than before without sliding. I don't have experience about the difference in snow/ice capabilities between RWD and AWD, but the difference is massive between FWD and AWD
From the first introduction of the idea, I've said computerized safety systems will mostly just convince people to pay less attention, especially with buggy early versions. It's like how most people who have never driven without ABS can't thresh-hold brake.
Not to get political but Dr Faucci initially rejected the idea of mask mandates for coronavirus for the exact same reason lmao.
@@oneal3224 I always have difficulty breathing in those masks but can't provide a diagnosed medical reason for it. I said from the start that I never try to get within 6 feet of anyone on purpose anyway and if someone is that close to me, it was their own choice. People should be able to keep their distance and say things like "Excuse me, I need something from where you're standing. Could you back up a bit?" but common sense doesn't effect government.
A lot of safety tech annoys the hell out of me. Good when it works, but people get complacent and rely on a very much fallible machine.
People merge without looking because they have blind spot assistance.
People don't pay attention to the car directly in front because they have collision warning/mitigation.
People drive like they're invincible in crossovers and trucks because they think more size = more safe (guess what, it's the opposite because more mass has more energy to dissipate, especially since many crossovers cheat their way into being classified as an offroad vehicle and lack things like side impact protection).
People drive dangerously in low friction conditions (or, god forbid, forego snow tires in winter) because they think traction control, AWD, and torque vectoring will somehow magically create grip where there is none, and I seriously want to slap Subaru for continuously making this misconception worse every year as snow starts falling and they bang on about their "full-time symmetrical AWD" (a fancy way of saying the most basic, low tech form of AWD on the market).
I'm all for making cars as safe as possible, but hate when people become reliant on these far from perfect, very much not magic technologies, and hate it far more when manufacturers ENCOURAGE this dangerous behaviour in their advertizing.
Hope you enjoyed my novel, I'll be signing copies at the door.
I'm all for NOT making cars safe as possible. Only elite drivers should have the ability to drive. No ABS, no power steering, big gas guzzling V8s RWD only
@Black Man they're going to use that fact to fuel their anti car propaganda and ban all non pussified electric cars. It's just like covid, or 9/11. "bUt iTs sAferrr." Safety is for weak cowardly pussies.
I hate the belief of older cars being safer because of different materials that won’t crumple like on newer cars
“ But bladed my dads a mechanic so I know what I’m doing”…. I’m sure you’ve heard this so many times man
"But Bladed! I'm in Driver Elementary School, so I know what I'm doin'…"
I was going to say I can't believe people actually think brakes can regrow, but then I remembered that I live on planet earth and it is totally believable.
The loan part got me there…. I’m glad you covered this and many good misconceptions topics. Now I know better and I’ll crunch the numbers before I go to buy another car.
While Bladed Angel is annoyed that only his list videos get popular. His misconception based videos are really helpful to people, so he should at least feel proud of those.
This is only if you super-savvy. In general, choose what do you want to drive, and calculate if you can afford the monthly payment. If all the people did "number crunch", not many would drive the cars they want to drive.
5 signs your car has to much power for you to handle
I'd like to see this.
Speaking of shoulder checking, I found a way to be able to adjust my mirrors in a way where I don’t need to shoulder check because that blind spot is gone but occasionally I’ll do it anyway just in case
bro I heard "Overdrive will make you faster" and I started dying laughing, Im 13 and I know that is so false, had me rolling
Bro, video games will teach you _everything_ about gear ratios. Just buy the adjustable transmission
I didn’t even know there were places that professionally retread tires. I’m curious to know the cost and locations.
They are really cheap and can only be done with nylon tyres. It is only legal to do that to rear tyres not fronts because fronts do a lot of breaking
You'd be better off just getting virgin tires. Eventually, every retread will separate. It's a matter of when, not if. All of those big pieces of rubber on the side of the highway are from retreads.
People now view driving as a chore, not an activity that requires a lot of skill to do safely.
Good on you for talking about the finance of buying cars! Sure, there are plenty if videos on finance channels that cover the topic, but for you to do it reaches a more specific audience. You're right that most ate hyperfocused on the monthly payment. "What kind of payment are you looking to be at?" is practically the very first question a car salesman will ask you on the lot. I would like to add that beyond shifting one's focus to bottom line instead of the monthly payment, another pitfall is financing the entire purchase with no money down. That is another huge sapper of money over the long term. Keep up the good content!
That first one was. Honestly astonishing. I know Elon fanboys are idiotic, but. I mean holy shit. Wow.
My experience is that regen brakes are actually better at low speeds. I find that at low speeds I can usually make them eat up the entire kinetic energy of the car pretty quickly, whereas at freeeway type speeds, even modest braking will quickly max out the charge rate of our Hybrid Corolla's battery.
I always know overdrive and cruising mode had something to do with each other but never know they were the same
overdrive is the final gear in your transmission, cruise control electronically or mechanically maintains a speed
How about the 54% of Americans who think the e brake is to be pulled in a case of emergency/quick braking instead of as a backup brake
I once saw on a credit card no lie 9000% APR, I do think the company got in a bit of trouble after that.
If a company denies you a service because it's not safe to YOU it's probably not safe to you. If they come up with an excuse find a new company
The biggest problem I see with regen brakes is that the rotors will rust more due to the lack of use
You still use the brakes a lot. Regen braking is very weak, like 0.2 G's on the very strong end. By very strong, I mean I'm pretty sure that's what Le Mans and F1 cars pull.
Regenerative brakes were limited in F1 because teams could use it to break more quickly than others.
It's just not worth a huge investment on your everyday car.
@@someweeb3650 Tesla's pull .2 to .3. You can safely drive without using the brake at that point.
@@someweeb3650 some people I know, I have golf gte, hybrid. They had to replace the brakes duo to rust, if you are driving like an average person, rust is a bigger factor than wear
Woot just look how many tire marks are on your track is there,my regenerative retreadet tire will pick it up. And tada! New tire!
7. Teslas are very safe and won't catch fire on impact.
Less than 12% of the probability of your tank full of highly flammable fuel spreading all over you and bursting into flames. And yes, better crash safety scores than ALL of your gas burners.
You have been fact checked.
The overdrive thing is something I learned from my dad in his Honda Accord. The car had 5 gears, but he pointed out that he could hit top speed in 4th, and 5th was the overdrive gear for efficient cruising.
Your explanation on overdrive is technically correct, but doesn't really explain *why* it's called "overdrive." The term refers to any gear that allows the wheels to spin faster than the engine, and rose to prevalence in an era where the top gear of your average 3-speed transmission would spin the wheels at a 1:1 ratio. When a fourth gear was added that reduced this ratio to, say, 0.67, it was referred to as "overdrive."
Technically the 8L90 in your Z06 has two overdrive gears: 7th (0.8455) and 8th (0.6515). 6th is 1:1.
Also overdrive gears back in the day did make the car "faster" at least in terms of top speed. As the engine was powerful enough to push past a 1:1 gear ratio, and therefore to get the maximum top speed an overdrive is required. Its just the case that these days the top overdrive gear normally doesn't give you the highest top speed.
7. "They say my car is reliable. So I think it doesn't need maintenance."
Your 7th gear in your corvette is also a overdrive gear lol not just 8th. You need overdrive to hit higher top speeds.
Most cars have one or two overdrive gears, although they might not both be "cruising gears". It might have been better put if he called it a granny gear, which is universally known as a cruising gear. Then again, a friend with an Alfa 164S has a transmission with its highest gearing being 1:1 in 5th, so no overdrive, but it still is his cruising gear. It all just depends on the car, the transmission ratios, and the rear end.
@@bentracy7463 Yes it does, but a lot of cars don't just use overdrive gears for cruising or fuel economy like ridge chaser makes it seem. A lot of cars have overdrive gears for higher top speed.
@@bentracy7463 Granny gear ain't universally known as a cruising gear, in fact that's the first time I've ever heard of it used as such.
A granny gear is generally a super short gear (technically 1st gear, but a lot of shifters dont mark them as first) found on 4WDs and trucks, it's called a granny gear because it's uber slow, usually having a 5:1 ish ratio.
@@wolfgang_h3t You're right. I had been thinking completely backwards. My bad.
Need a video on proper setup for driving. To many people have their mirrors set to see behind them when they should be set to see into the blind spot. If you look into your rearview mirror and a car is coming up beside you then when that car moves out of the rearview mirrors view it should be in your side mirror and once it's beyond that it should be in your peripheral vision. there are only a few reasons why you should turn your head when driving.
^This person gets it
Why am I not surprised that Tesla fanboys genuinely believe that their breaks grow back?
Because they have a lower mental capacity than a goldfish
Oh yes with the safety features, my dads 2021 Honda Accord with Lane Keep Assist has caused him to nearly crash multiple times.
I’m happy with my 1975 International Scout lmao
Also: if ur breaks squeak, they do not need lube (most of the time) but they need to be replaced
Excellent advice. A note on overdrive. Back when that phrase started, you could get a bit more out of top gear. Not much, and not quickly, but if you had the room to stay in it you could squeeze about 10 mph out of most cars. But for modern cars you are completely right.
OK the overdrive thing was helpful to me because my new motorcycle says "Overdrive 6" on the engine and now I know what that means, lmao. I sort've intuited how I needed to shift by listening to/feeling how the engine responded in each gear, but now I know WHY it's acting like that. Thanks.
As a Tesla fanboy I feel ashamed that other fans still think regenerative braking regrows brakes. Like comon man
I may not like Teslas, but that's dumb. Matter cant just pop out of completely nothing
I’m leaving a like on this video for the algorithm. That being said, I am not a car guy at all and don’t know a lot , but I got to retreaded tyre, and I’m like I can’t continue, how are people this stupid, honest, how would brakes regrow, do you not hear them whin??? Do they not feel funny when you hit the breaks???? Also if tyres can be retreaded, they would still have aged rubber, I don’t know how it works but I would rather have new tyres, my tyres have the tread almost finished, when I noticed I started saving for new tyre.
I’m leaving my like, but people are stupid, I can’t continue to watch 🤦🏽♂️
I feel that the misconception of overdrive is more of a disappointing realisation than a dangerous misconception
Im 14 and i knew how overdrive works and i was surprised that so many people think about this in this way. For me it is obvious that if the top speed is on lower gear, you cant go faster on next gear
@@gombka1144 yeah if you are not mecanicly inclined you know that stuff but if you drove cars that might not have had it bevore i can see how sb could get confused there
Well, I've tried overtaking on a crowded highway before without downshifting from top gear first, and it's a bit scary feeling the car refuses to accelerate with your foot on the floor.
If you have no credit and want to build credit as long as you have a descent paying job I recommend 3 years tops or paying off your vehicle at the end of the 3rd year. Your credit on minimum payments will reach over 720 by the 3rd year. Do auto payments so you never miss a payment. I bought a car in 2019 and got approved for a loan without credit because of my job. I just paid it off this winter. My credit score is over 720. That's nearly 3 years of payments on the minimum. Now I have an excellent credit score and can get approved for bigger loans with lower APR to make payment cheaper if I wanted another nice vehicle. It's not the best way to build credit but it's one that you have to have the right circumstances to attain. A credit card is the best method as you'll be spending money on gas and groceries. Though I recommend having a debit card to save 10 cents on gas. I've been to gas stations that charged 50 cents for using a card regardless of credit or debit and that makes me salty.
Lmao at the regenerative braking part. Tf did they think their car was, Wolverine?💀💀💀💀💀
That would explain all the "Wolverine claw marks" a la Drew Peacock
HOW? How can people be so stupid as to think regenerative braking regenerates their BRAKES?? That's... Just idiotic. And also the tires... The tires, people are so stupid sometimes
Lol overdrive makes you faster that’s like with a manual 6th gear gets you faster to 100kmh 😂
yeah nah bro when I drive to work I have like this aweshome corner then I go relatively slow in 3rd gear like 50kmh then floor it till 120kmh keeps being fun 🤩 then shove it from 3rd to 6th gear my engine goes like
BRAAAAAAAAA
To
Brrrrrrrrrrr
It’s just funny keeps me smiling behind the wheel
It’s crazy how all the Silicon Valley guys are ignoring basic laws of the universe, matter can not simple appear or be made of nothing, matter must come in, in order for matter to be made, brakes can’t just keep remaking themselves without adding literal metal to the brakes, tires can not simple grow back without any material being added back, they kinda dumb
When it come to loans for anything, I'd recommend looking up a compound interest calculator, figure out how much you can afford with the LOWEST time frame, and your APR. If you look at the total end cost and think,
"alright I would buy the car for that all things considered" then go ahead.
If you look at and think "Damm thats almost double the cost of the car" I would rethink your purchase or save more so you don't have as much on the loan.
The apr one is very important. I almost got fukd when buying a first vehicle. I only was able to get out of the loan because they lost my license and i didn't provide another copy so the bank took back the loan. I didn't do my homework fully before buying and the person i did ask didn't know crap about smart purchasing. Now i bought a car cash on hand no payments.
I knew the first one for ages because of my Chevy Volt. Fantastic car IMO at the early stage of the electric age.
Brakes last ages on the volt, and it helps range and with some gradual stops. Just switch to aggressive regeneration and decelerate, then stop once you're already very slow.
I wish i never heard the first one, the fact that some people think/thought that, amazes me.
New driver here, thank you so much for these videos. I'm trying really hard to make sure that I'm not just another idiot on the road who thinks he's a better driver than everyone else or thinks he knows it all about cars. These videos help me loads.
Just don't come across as a know it all so if u say something dumb, people are more likely to help u then attack
do racing sims and watch a lot of videos about car engineering and driving techniques. I recommend driver61
Man some people have terrible car payments. 29% apr is insane. I was 23 when I bought my car at 60 months and 6.99% and I would not want to go any longer than 5 years. How do people agree to stuf like that. I guess low payments and they just assume they will sell the car in a few years and hope to get it all back or hope to get someone to take over the loan.
I actually learned somehting. thank you. I always wondered what were an overdrive. I've always heard about it in school, but never understood what it is. now I understand it's a ridiculously long extra gear that makes you save fuel made especially for cruising
I'm unsure about this overdrive thing, my car is old and Auto, it has an overdrive option but I think it's completely different to what you're talking about. Im a little confused
Dude, your videos are so realistic and down to the ground, definitively the best list video on yt
6. People thinking they can drift with any car when most are fwd econo-boxes/lame suvs
Regenerative braking is a techknowledgy that had been around since the first hybrids 20 years ago like the prius. Telsa fans try so hard to be smart its embarassing
i dont know if this applies to the us. But u should only take out a loan for a house taking a loan out for a car isnt smart. if u need to pay the car back over 5 years the amount of thing that can fuck you over is crazy. but people dont have patience and want everthing fast.
in addition you still have to turn on the normal brakes even when your just casually stopping. eddy currents are great for stopping from fast to slow, but not from slow to zero.
My overdrive gear (4th) kicks on at around 30 mph, but it accelerates like a snail 😂
If someone ever says "kick it into overdrive" I'm gonna shake my head and sigh.
I can use my overdrive all the way down to 25 mph! But then again its a manual so I decide to do that... Still slow, steady traffic means I can get great fuel economy with my engine ticking over at 1000 rpm lol.
Despite the fact that it looks like a PowerPoint presentation over video... Your videos are so entertaining and interesting, keep up the good work! (I know there's much more effort than a PowerPoint)
Man’s with Nezuko on the hood, and playing the hideout music from Scarlet Nexus. A man of culture I see. UwU
Love your vids, learned a lot from you and you brought me into the car guy scene
Be warned: a vampire on a motorcycle is invisible both on a mirror and sensors so if you kill someone bc you were to lazy to look over your shoulder, tell that to the officer 👌
Always a good day when Blade posts a vid
Not always tbh.
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... Tf never heard of the regenerative braking misconseption, sounds incredibly dangerous and stupid... and dangerous.
More technology can mean higher repair bills. And sometimes that technology probably doesn’t work right.
I'm amazed by the existence of people wealthy enough to own a Tesla but aren't able to understand basic physics or even common sense.
Makes sense that he has to explain this to Tesla drivers, they have less intelligence than a potato. Also, ain’t no way they’re calling the tire compounds “blends” like freakin coffee.
More safety tech = more bad, lazy drivers.
Worst thing to happen to driving
People who think regenerative braking actually grows brake material must be from the year 3000
I haven't heard of retreading tires since the 80s. It was the poor mans way of saving money. It was also common with semi-trucks. Thats why you see random tire tread on the side of the road. I'm fairly sure it is illegal here in Florida. The cheap thing now is used tires, which is almost as dumb. Honestly the last place to be cheap is your tires. If you can't afford Y rated tires, you should have bought a Nissan Versa. There's no shame in driving what you can afford and being safe.
I'm always amazed on how much people refuse to spend money on the thing that takes them to work and the store. I've seen people reusing oil filters because they just didn't want to buy a new one.
It’s crazy how financially illiterate majority of Americans are, especially when it comes to credit and loans. It really should be a required class in highschool at very least. I have only a $2,000 limit on my credit card I barely use and I still have a 764 credit score after only 2-3 years of having an account. It is very easy as long as you are responsible and don’t spend money you don’t have
Granted I never financed my car and paid cash but still
This video made me understand the true meaning behind the “maximum overdrive” joke in spongebob
I am very new to cars, but the regenerative brakes sound insanely cool. Its amazing that it can salvage some of the thermal energy of the breaks and turn it into usable energy for the system. Thats incredible tech! :D
That's the neat thing about electricity: every motor is secretly a generator, and every generator is secretly a motor.
This also causes part of the weird looking torque and power curves for motors when compared to combustion engines: as the motor shaft gets spun around by the electromagnets, it STILL does that electric generation thing, just fighting against the field that spun it up to begin with
Because of this, the rpm of a brushless motor is proportional to the input voltage, and it will try to draw as much current as it needs to carry the current load TO that rpm
In my country's driving exams, if you don't shoulder check for everything (lane merging, initiating drive, anything that means your car isn't going in a straight line, basically) it's an instant fail. They sure beat that habit into me and saved my life a couple times.
Don’t take it personal but BMW and Tesla drivers are among the worst.
This has to do with the point of the blind spot detection, I work for a car dealership, we had a customer who got into an accident because they never checked their blind spot and caused an accident, they tried to blame the blind spot detection for not working and saying that it's our fault that the accident happened, long story short they got mad when we told them it's not out fault the camera didn't pick up the car and they still have to do a shoulder check no matter what and they decided not to come back again