Eli5 Why do cars move at all when in drive without the accelerator being used. I’m not talking cruise control.

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Eli5 Why do cars move at all when in drive without the accelerator being used. I’m not talking cruise control.

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It’s called creep and is designed to assist with pulling away smoothly on hill starts, junctions etc where you may roll back a little. It’s configurable on teslas for example, if you don’t like it.

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