Why are so many Mavericks getting rear ended?

[Grabber Rick]

Do the brake lights stay on when stopped, but your foot is off the pedal because you're using Brake Hold?

How about activating the brake lights based only on deceleration G force, I think most new vehicles already measure this, could probably be done with a software update. Once the G load hits a determined number the lights come on, doesn't matter what's causing the deceleration. This would prevent brake lights when someone's riding the pedal, coasting, or light regen.

Ford has enough issues with software updates already. Don't want to add more that could create more malfuntions to the Mavericks.

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[Master Blaster]

The hybrid is not one pedal driving

I beg to differ. There are a large number of Hybrid drivers who put the eCVT in L-mode for one-pedal driving. With a 1-speed transmission, L-mode does not work like it does on the EcoBoost. L-mode is also extremely useful on hilly terrain, giving you hill descent control mode for free. Finally, putting it into ECO-mode doubles the regen braking, giving you about 1/3 of the L-mode braking without touching the brake pedal.
And yes, I think the brake lights should be on in any situation where you are decelerating. That also includes all those Euro manual transmissions where shifting down does not feed in more fuel to keep the resulting pollution low, and all the Teslas with their stupidly small and dim lights..

 

[oysterville]

Ford has enough issues with software updates already. Don't want to add more that could create more malfuntions to the Mavericks.

 

[oysterville]

I beg to differ. There are a large number of Hybrid drivers who put the eCVT in L-mode for one-pedal driving. With a 1-speed transmission, L-mode does not work like it does on the EcoBoost. L-mode is also extremely useful on hilly terrain, giving you hill descent control mode for free. Finally, putting it into ECO-mode doubles the regen braking, giving you about 1/3 of the L-mode braking without touching the brake pedal.
And yes, I think the brake lights should be on in any situation where you are decelerating. That also includes all those Euro manual transmissions where shifting down does not feed in more fuel to keep the resulting pollution low, and all the Teslas with their stupidly small and dim lights..

 

[dochawk]

I can not think of any instance when I am downshifting with an manual transmission and not applying the brake at the same time

what, haven't driven an unsynchronized manual recently?



You must give it gas while double clutching, or you'll grind! (unless you're at the magic speed, which I believe also depends upon the speed at which you pull the transmission!)

[without synchronization, you need to get the engine speed up to where it will be]

Nevertheless, I have found that the search function in this forum is very helpful. I

oh, I'm not knocking the usefulness of searching. It's just that I stopped bothering to even try sites' own searches so long ago, instead going straight to google!

 

[dochawk]

My wife had my '93 Fleetwood (last of the big GM. larger than even the last year's of the crown Victoria/town car) in a rather empty walmart parking lot. Way out from the store.

She hear the *thump*, and thought she had been hit by the two old ladies who were now crying. "We couldn't see you!".

A white Cadillac Fleetwood in a black parking lot??? ???

really?

and it wasn't a rear-end, it turns out. She saw no damage, and didn't collect their info. But they hit the rear quarter panel, damaging the absolute hardest to find chrome panel (yes, panel, something like 6" tall) .

but Haggerty says I'm covered.

 

[rJay]

I know I'm late to the party. I am a cop, and I can tell you statistically one third of all crashes nationwide are rear end collisions, accounting for the largest percentage by *very far*. Granted, I did not read every post on all 14 pages, just the recent few pages. But yeah, I would be hard pressed to believe Mavericks are somehow massively off center for the national average.

P.S. My 2023 Maverick crash was not a rear end crash.

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