The few times I’ve heard anyone discuss auto stop/start in Oklahoma, it was to complain about it or comment that they’ve disabled it. Meanwhile in my work vehicle, the stop/start has saved hundreds of hours of idling over the car’s lifetime, and it’s only about halfway to being retired.
It exists in some cars, but it’s clunky and anyone with used car experience gets a jump scare every time it happens. It’s really only well implemented in hybrids.
Only if US drivers would stop driving like idiots and idling their motors wasting fuel.
Don’t American cars have a start stop automation that stops the engine as soon as the car isn’t driving? Or are they also disabling it?
The few times I’ve heard anyone discuss auto stop/start in Oklahoma, it was to complain about it or comment that they’ve disabled it. Meanwhile in my work vehicle, the stop/start has saved hundreds of hours of idling over the car’s lifetime, and it’s only about halfway to being retired.
It exists in some cars, but it’s clunky and anyone with used car experience gets a jump scare every time it happens. It’s really only well implemented in hybrids.
That’s gotta burn out starters really fast.