I know cops didn’t like it, because they were concerned about their car stalling out.
I can’t afford a new car but don’t have any incentive to want one anyway, until most of this craziness is rolled back and automakers can go back to pleasing consumers rather than bureaucrats and leftwing nuts.
I end it on my vehicle every time I start it up. Pushing the button to cancel it is simple, but it’s just a little annoying, especially if I forget.
I had Grol crunching the numbers yesterday. It does a remarkable job framing a problem, making assumptions, doling sensitivity analysis, and calculating results.
I was astounded how this tech adds $800-$1,000 to MSRP. and saves you maybe $100 over five years.
There was higher savings in city stiop and go driving compared to suburban and rural driving, so it is a cross subsidy from rural/suburban to urban drivers.
And that high increase in MSRP really hits the poor and working class people the hardest.
So the whole thing just stinks.
It’s so easy to disable, a cave man could do it.
But, it should never have been installed in the first place.
That’s what we are talking about.
Fire all the so called employees of ours that have in the past dictated what goes into the open ended regulations and how what they write is interpreted.
Deselect the unelect now.
They govt could set targets, but it’s meddling when they dictate to manufacturers how to meet them.
Let the free market work.
One feature could have removed the pain: retain the setting between starts. The AC stays on or off when I turn off the engine. The cruise control does the same, as do the various traction control settings. Just stay off when I turn it off instead of always turning back on.
That's the dumbest piece of technology ever developed. I turn mine off every time I get in the car and when I forget, it never works anyway when I come to a stop.
With some cars, this is easy to disable. With some cars, it isn’t. Or you might have the option to disable it every time you startup. PITA but eventually you can get used to doing that.
We unfortunately had to buy a vehicle during the plandemic. With the chip shortage Ford was having trouble fielding chips for the start-stop. They gave us $50 to NOT put in the BS “feature” we didn’t want.
I believe existing cars on the road could have their systems updated to remove this function. Either in the programming, or with a hardware update. The car basically has to ‘decide’ when to just itself off, based on a number of conditions. NO reason it cannot be turned off
I got tired of having to hit the button to turn the “feature” off every time I started the vehicle - got lucky with the new Rav 4 - got the overhead view package that includes using the camera from the rear view mirror if you have stuff piled in the back, blocking the view - the control to turn it off is via buttons on the mirror (weird place for it), but once I turned it off, it stayed off - don’t have to mess with it every time I get in the car.
There’s a button on the dash of my Chevy labelled “A” that enables/disables the engine shut off.
I rented a cheap Ford Focus or some such with practically no automated or computerized features. It was so easy to drive and quiet, felt like a breeze. I preferred it over my newer BMW.
The real purpose was to make cars more expensive and less pleasurable to drive.
Because the left hates freedom of transport almost as much as it hates freedom of speech.
My 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee HEMI V8 has an option in “Controls”, to negate the ‘start-stop’ idiocy. I turned it off before I left the dealership, on day one.
Remember the years when you HAD TO FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT to get the car to start?
Just another one of the insane regulations that government loves to force on us. Remember the rules that prevented cars from starting if you didn’t have the seat belt buckled? I believe I encountered this on a Toyota in the 70’s. It was possible to turn the “feature” off, which I did.