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"drive mode unavailable" hit me 5 times on a 10 mile round trip to the bank yesterday
Talk to @macchiaz-o . IIRC he has had that particular problem do often and so long that it could officially be called a feature. :(
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I love that about Unbridled - it's the main reason I use that mode as my primary. This is my second EV and I got used to the more aggressive regenerative brake settings. It just feels like you have so much more control over the car. You get used to feathering the accelerator to adjust the effect. Ford did us a disservice by locking the brake/accelerator power bar to the GT models, though. On my previous EV I could see if I was actively accelerating or hitting regenerative braking, and roughly how strongly I was doing either, so I could train myself to know the feel and pressure on the accelerator needed to coast. I don't like how I have no visual feedback on the Mach-E for that, but I got used to it and do it by feel now.

That, and it's kind of nice for those times when you get a case of the zoomies and then spot a police officer, to be able to slow down pretty quickly without activating your brake lights. Y'know, just so as to draw a bit less attention to yourself ;)
Maybe I will try Unbridled one weekend, again, just to see if I feel any different about it.
I wasn't aware that when you removed your foot from the excelerator, it would brake, but, not show brake lights. Good to know...
 

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Maybe I will try Unbridled one weekend, again, just to see if I feel any different about it.
I wasn't aware that when you removed your foot from the excelerator, it would brake, but, not show brake lights. Good to know...
Unbridled does not brake when you lift off of the accelerator pedal. It has a much more aggressive regeneration curve than the other two drive modes, which makes the car decelerate as if you had a manual transmission in an ICE car and did not disengage the clutch when you let off the accelerator. If you have a GT or GT-PE (or if your instrument cluster is modified via FORscan) you can watch the difference in regeneration on the power meter. ??
 

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Unbridled does not brake when you lift off of the accelerator pedal. It has a much more aggressive regeneration curve than the other two drive modes, which makes the car decelerate as if you had a manual transmission in an ICE car and did not disengage the clutch when you let off the accelerator. If you have a GT or GT-PE (or if your instrument cluster is modified via FORscan) you can watch the difference in regeneration on the power meter. ??
Thanks for the clarification...
 


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Maybe I will try Unbridled one weekend, again, just to see if I feel any different about it.
I wasn't aware that when you removed your foot from the excelerator, it would brake, but, not show brake lights. Good to know...
Like @HuntingPudel said, you're slowing down while not actually using the brakes.

I want to correct the thing @Reign of Ravens said. With one pedal driving, when the car slows down with some minimal amount of deceleration or greater, the brake lights do illuminate, even while your foot's not pressing the brake pedal.
 

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Like @HuntingPudel said, you're slowing down while not actually using the brakes.

I want to correct the thing @Reign of Ravens said. With one pedal driving, when the car slows down with some minimal amount of deceleration or greater, the brake lights do illuminate, even while your foot's not pressing the brake pedal.
Not to segway this thread. But, to confirm, with Unbridled, the brake light does not come on, unless I press the brake pedal?

But, with one pedal driving (which I do not use), the brake lights do come on when not pressing the excelerator?
 

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Not to segway this thread. But, to confirm, with Unbridled, the brake light does not come on, unless I press the brake pedal?

But, with one pedal driving (which I do not use), the brake lights do come on when not pressing the excelerator?
Pretty much any topic here that stays active for more than half a day gets segued. ?

I only drive in 1PD mode, so I can confirm that I've seen the brake lights illuminate while I'm decelerating, even though I'm not using the brake pedal.

I can't confirm the 2PD behavior, though.
 

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Not to segway this thread. But, to confirm, with Unbridled, the brake light does not come on, unless I press the brake pedal?

But, with one pedal driving (which I do not use), the brake lights do come on when not pressing the excelerator?
The car posesses an accelerometer which will illuminate the brake lights when the car decelerates at a great enough rate. Under the right conditions, the brake lights will illuminate without pressing on the brake pedal. For the most part on flat land they will not come on. There are also instances where a light tap on the pedal will bring the brake lights to bear and they won’t extinguish until the car is going quite slow. ??

I’m the opposite of @macchiaz-o in that I only drive 2PD, so I have observed these behaviors with my car. ??
 

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Regenerative braking is engine braking. It's still technically braking, just not using the traditional brakes we think of (friction brakes).

I want to correct the thing @Reign of Ravens said. With one pedal driving, when the car slows down with some minimal amount of deceleration or greater, the brake lights do illuminate, even while your foot's not pressing the brake pedal.
This is the behavior on my Pacifica Hybrid, but I have not noticed the lights activating on my Mach-E - but perhaps they're not bright enough to light up the area around me. It seems like it would be a safety hazard to decelerate as quickly as we can with unbridled mode and not have the lights activate. I'll keep an eye to see if it really is activating or not.
 

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I like using a big pickup with a shiny grill or front end to do an occasional brake lights/ turn signal check. The driver behind me in the truck probably thinks Im nuts ( the jury's still out on that ) but it takes the guess work out of the equation and saves me from getting a ticket if a bulb has burned out .
 

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I think I will specifically try Unbridled more this week. It will be interesting if I change my vote…
 

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Regenerative braking is engine braking. It's still technically braking, just not using the traditional brakes we think of (friction brakes).
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It’s actually a misnomer. It should be called regenerative deceleration. There is no brake involved to convert kinetic energy into heat. There is a generator that converts the kinetic energy into electricity. ??
 

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I am all in on Unbridled mode. Love the feel in 1 pedal mode. Hate the orange theme, but otherwise it’s great for me. I even have to set my F150 lightning to sport, because I’m so used to unbridled, steering is far to loose.
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