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Originally Posted by cellsafemode

I think the difference is that people who bring up this "dead zone" on initial peddle travel are coming from mostly older cars that had mechanical linkages where all of your pedal transitions correlated directly to some amount of throttle movement. Having a pre-programmed amount of nothing - be it for safety or whatever is just new. Adapting to it is probably a perfectly reasonable thing to require - but lots of people dont like change and maybe it's something that doesn't really need to be there as well.

Unless that mechanical linkage is in perfect working order, they are actually a bigger PITA from my experience since they are prone to more issues(like I mentioned above). I was happy to have engines goto drive by wire throttles.