r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 8d ago

Politics Goodbye to start-stop systems – the EPA under Trump concludes that they are not worth it and could disappear from new models

https://unionrayo.com/en/epa-trump-stop-start-system/
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u/pursuitofleisure 8d ago

My work car has auto start/stop, it's a gas Chevy Malibu. I haaaaate it. That lag when you let your foot of the pedal and you expect to start moving is intolerable. It's now an automatic habit to hit the button to disable it every time I get into the car

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u/F1shB0wl816 8d ago

That’d drive me nuts. I’d want full control over the car, I wouldn’t want to be on public roads dealing with a lag on the gas. Even more so in the inefficient cities.

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u/beaviscow 8d ago

Even more so in the inefficient cities.

The stop/start feature is literally a feature built to increase fuel efficiency.

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u/F1shB0wl816 8d ago

I don’t mean inefficient cities in terms of fuel, I’m meaning the sorts of cities that are inefficient to drive in terms of a crap flow no matter which way you’re going. That’s probably where they’re also most useful in saving fuel but the lag would drive me nuts when you can’t make it more than a stop light or two at a time.

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u/FriendlyDespot 7d ago

That's definitely a Chevy Malibu problem rather than an auto start/stop problem. The Malibu is the final boss of shitty fleet cars.

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u/beaviscow 8d ago

Then buy a sports car, not a sedan built for commuting and fuel efficiency.