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This bothers me more than it should.

It should be called the decoupler pedal because that’s what it actually does.

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[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

In most gasoline vehicles it's the throttle pedal. Pressing it reduces how much you're throttling the engines air supply