No attempt to mislead. I love my i pace. Just wanted to see if anyone else had similar experience, from a safety point of view. I didn't want to blame the car without considering driver error. The thing that troubles me is the fact that i always use creep mode when parking, to avoid driver error. By the way, i have the last 35 or more years without so much as a parking ticket.
Electric cars tend to get SUA reports (sudden unintended acceleration) due to how the powertrain works. One Pedal Driving is something alien to most drivers. I always suggest to drivers who are new to EVs to set their cars to Minimum Regen, Creep On.
Not sure if you remember when ABS hit the scene, but there were many SUA reports at first blaming the braking modulator. What was happening is that instead of locking up a wheel(s) and making a screeching noise as the car pulled to one side, the car would go straight and stop slowly. The stopping distances were usually the same. ABS can't create traction where there is none.
I have one of the early I-Paces in the US. I have driven it like I do my other performance cars, both on closed courses, and on public roads. The accelerator always functioned correctly. However, I've been driving electric cars since 2012. I have multiple competition licenses.
NOW... For my Christine story. One of my cars was yet to be named as of the spring of 2017. It has Adaptive Cruise Control, that is, it has radar controlled throttle and braking. I was driving the four of us from Goleta, CA to Solvang, CA for some sightseeing and shopping. I was on the freeway and set the ACC at 75 mph, and just followed the traffic. I turned off onto the road to Solvang, and it was slow going down a 2-lane winding road, so I let the ACC do the pedal work. Beautiful day, having a grand old time. The car right in front of me was driving particularly slow. Then the front car slowed even more, and pulled off into a parking lot and ...
ZOOM! My car took off without me! The ACC was still set to 75 mph, I was going 20 mph, and it decided that was way too slow. I was distracted with conversation when this occurred, so my reaction time wasn't what it should have been. Everyone in the car yelled at me to slow down, and I told them it wasn't me doing it. HONEST!
So that is why the light blue car is named Christine, from the Stephen King novel about a possessed homicidal deathmobile.