Nothing, because no stop/start system works when the engine is cold. It’s only ever HOT starts, the engine won’t be off long enough for the oil to drain anywhere, and especially with modern direct-injection engines hot starting takes about nothing. My M235i would restart faster than I could get my clutch foot to the…

From personal experience, the savings is pretty decent. in Powerful cars and V8s, it can be the difference of a quarter tank, especially in city settings.

It throws a CEL and doesn’t do stop-start but will still start normally... did you read the article?

Sure. It saves a measurable amount of fuel.

“In reality, it’s hard to measure how much fuel this function saves”

“Ultimately, I think it makes the Autopilot feature useless,”

As a “10 & 2" driver, cars that use steering wheel torque to verify hands on the wheel are absolutely infuriating. On a long straight interstate, I have both hands on the wheel, but why would I be putting any torque into it at all. Having to “jiggle the wheel” to shut the thing up makes me want to kill someone.

Please provide an example of this actually happening. All I’ve been able to find is an old Snopes article and some references to the Mythbusters episode where they tried blowing up a gas station with a cell phone.

That’s gotta be some record for longest time flying a remote control helicopter without breaking it.

When is the last time static electricity - and not something more obvious - been the cause of a fire at a gas station? Getting in and out of the car might be bad for other reasons (like not properly monitoring the pump) but static electricity seems like an old wives’ tale, considering you’re touching the car (and…

Nope, fuck that. If the nozzle reaches, I’m taking an available pump. Not gonna sit behind the 2 mooks that are waiting for the one pump that “matches” when there are 2-3 open ones that are completely cromulent for the task.

AH! Thanks - I missed that. I did read this before. Whew. Not senile dementia yet. 

If it was clogged filters there wouldn’t be such a large difference between pumps that worked right, and those that didn’t. You’d see every rate inbetween. The defective pumps clearly have a sudden failure, not a slowly building one like a clog.

And when they get caught it’s going to be soo much worse for them. It goes from a moving violation to filing a false police report, obstruction of justice, likely attempted insurance fraud, all manner of charges.

Here’s what their marketing department has to say:

I’m honestly surprised that with the rise in concern for microplastics—and that tires appear to be a major source of them—hasn’t lead to calls for improvements on how we contain them from roads, or reduce them from being generated in the first place. I fully support more EV’s, but the fact they wear out tires faster…

It’s sort of funny that we couldn’t help ourselves with the performance possibilities of EVs so we just HAD to make every one of them accelerate like a Lambo.

Even if it was, people looking for a $5 sandwich probably aren’t all that invested in the quality of that sandwich.

Cleaning is one of the reasons why I reject most kitchen gadgets for a good sharp knife. My 13 year old made kalamata olive butter two days ago, and the food processor is still not washed. (At least it won’t spoil, since butter is stable at RT.)

I had a motorized meat slicer in my kitchen for years. Nothing over the top or industrial grade but it was great for more than just slicing meats; good for certain cheeses and veggies too. You could get paper-thin onion slices.