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You’d think the “gas is too expensive” crowd would welcome a 5% decrease.
The vocal minority complaining about gas prices and start stop systems don't want to use less gas, they want to use more gas, they just want it to be magically cheaper.
Making these systems available to everyone is great.
Taking away people’s ability to turn them off makes them hated.
The picture used in this article is literally the button to turn the feature off.
Yeah not all cars have those, and even if there’s a button, it turns itself back on every time you turn the car on.
Allowing the driver to permanently turn it off is literally illegal.
Doubt. My car has a configurable personalized drive mode. One of the options in that mode is whether idle stop defaults on or off.
Most cars with the disable button can have the function inverted so you press it to turn it on and it defaults off.
I'm not sure it is illegal to disable it entirely, certainly depends on state law, but Start-Stop systems are not required and can be disabled under federal law because they are supplemental emissions reduction systems.
It almost certainly voids your warranty.
Citation needed. What law specifies that?
It’s not literally illegal, at worst it may void your warranty.
Mine doesn't turn itself back on.