Do EV's encourage poor driving?

[M.F.D]

I've been noticing this for a while and trying to separate it from the fact that generally driving standards in the UK are pretty poor. I reside in a new build estate and there are a few EV's that regularly drive excessively quickly when coming in and out. Some I've noticed didn't drive like this when they had an ICE car previously.

It was just other other day I was in with the family having a 'Starby's' waiting on our car being serviced when I noticed several EV's launch out the drive thru queue across the carpark. I'm also finding that increasingly cars on the school run are travelling/accelerating at a rate that I feel they weren't before.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar? Is it the lack of involvement - no gearing, no engine noise and the fact that they are so big and heavy that is causing people to become desensitised to speed and causing their driving standards to slip?

[M.F.D]

Tycho said:

Richtea1970 said:

M.F.D said:

I've been noticing this for a while and trying to separate it from the fact that generally driving standards in the UK are pretty poor. I reside in a new build estate and there are a few EV's that regularly drive excessively quickly when coming in and out. Some I've noticed didn't drive like this when they had an ICE car previously.

It was just other other day I was in with the family having a 'Starby's' waiting on our car being serviced when I noticed several EV's launch out the drive thru queue across the carpark. I'm also finding that increasingly cars on the school run are travelling/accelerating at a rate that I feel they weren't before.

Has anyone else noticed anything similar? Is it the lack of involvement - no gearing, no engine noise and the fact that they are so big and heavy that is causing people to become desensitised to speed and causing their driving standards to slip?

I gave up at ‘Starby’s’!

Agreed, goes in the dhead pile with people who go on "Hollibobs" and celebrated the "Platty Joobs".

Hence the inverted comma, as this is what the 'cool' people say...

Calm doon.

[M.F.D]

S600BSB said:

My wife reckons I drive better in my ipace than in my silly cars.

Yeah, but my point is that most people have went from a fairly pedestrian ICE car to something that has instant acceleration. I assume having silly cars you have an awareness of speed and throttle modulation, which clearly many don't.

[M.F.D]

JackJarvis said:

Fair point, kind of.

I am not trying to bash EV's here or say ICE cars are better, just pointing out my experience from what I have observed of regular people driving EV's.

[M.F.D]

Sigmamark7 said:

Maybe the drivers the OP originally referred to, are car enthusiasts and where previously, they would have used their mechanical sympathy to allow engine and gearbox oils to get up to operating temperature before pressing on, whereas now, the full performance of the EV is pretty much available from the moment you switch it on. Or maybe, they woke up late and need to be somewhere!

Negative. These people are not car enthusiasts.