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Old 01-10-2009, 09:50 AM   #160 (permalink)
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Paul, thinking about it, your "torque/speed-linked" approach is just another way of doing the "throttle ramp up" I talked about earlier.

Are there going to be unintended consequences? What if you are trying to drive up a hill, but slowly? (There actually IS a pretty steep hill in that 15 mph zone down the street from me) You need low speed, but high torque.

Would this feature be fairly simple to disable? I think it would be really interesting to road test with and without the speed/torque limiter to see how the car behaves in a variety of real world situations.
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