Method to save your gas if in gridlock

[Iwasthere]

Just wondering how workable a off engine stagger would be. Everyone turn off your engines when grid locked. Then pilot cars at the front wait until a couple miles of open freeway develops. Then pilot cars move the pack up and everyone turns their cars off again, repeat. Pilot cars along the freeway every 20 or 30 miles.

[Orsino]

1. You know what that sounds like? A train.

Are you some kind of commie? This is the land of the automobile.

[Iggo]

7. LOL.

[underpants]

2. It takes 7 seconds of gas to start a car

Hypermilage people will shut off their car at a stoplight if it's going to be more than 7 seconds. My hybrid does this automatically which is great except the AC stops working.

[MineralMan]

5. My Kia Soul will do that for me.

I have that feature turned off, though. It takes a second to restart at a light, and that's exactly long enough for the idiot in the car behind me to blast the horn, I've found. The minor fuel savings aren't really worth it, I think.

[underpants]

10. My Honda re-starts like a golf cart

[MineralMan]

13. Well, 2013 was the first year that feature was available

on the Soul. I imagine they've improved it since then. I think it works better on models with automatic transmissions. Mine is a manual 6-speed and probably not optimal for that feature. We're going to trade ours in on a new one next summer and opt for the automatic transmission, so I'll try it again with the 2017 or 2018 model.

[Hortensis]

14. Lol. Nothing's worth that.

[FSogol]

16. I can blast the horn in half that time. Go, man, go!

Actually, I usually beep the horn so the idiots in front of me can finish their text messages, update their facebook, put the phone down, and then start driving.

[TeamPooka]

18. lol

[underpants]

22. Me: "Hey! It doesn't get any greener pal!!"

[Iwasthere]

20. I don't believe it is 7 seconds

More like 3. Even if it was 7 seconds you would have several driving before stopping again.

[underpants]

23. This says 10 seconds.

https://www.edf.org/climate/reports/idling

Before I got a hybrid I read up on hypermilage and I could have sworn it was 7 seconds.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Or, drive a Prius nt

[frazzled]

9. Yeah, that's what we do

And I live in a city where major gridlock is a way of life. Not only no gas consumption in those situations, but 80% fewer emissions, total, to spew into the atmosphere.

Our Prius is 11 years old and we don't even have a hundred thousand miles on it (we don't drive that much in town, but do have to take road trips). My husband jumped into a Prius cab the other day and noticed the guy had 250,000 miles on it. What have you had to put into it to keep it going, he asked? Pretty much nothing, the driver replied. And he'd never had to replace the electric battery either--something that back in the day, when they first came out, people used to fret about, and use ias a reason why it was a terrible idea to buy one.

[Motley13]

4. You haven't been on I95 in FL

they would FILL up any space immediately

[X_Digger]

6. Breakdown lanes? Bah, they call those compact car lanes. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

11. Sure you don't mean "compacted" car lanes?

[X_Digger]

19. Freaked me out the first time I drove on I-95 around miami, seeing whole lanes of traffic..

.. moving down the breakdown lanes, as though it were a valid lane to travel in.

Dave Barry once said that, "Miami is the only city where people drive by the laws.. of their home country."

[Wounded Bear]

24. Well, in So Cal, when I lived there...

they opened up the shoulders to traffic during rush hour.

Yeah, I'm glad I didn't have to drive on freeways much.

[Warpy]

8. No, USA is the land of the belligerent arse who won't let anybody tell him what to do

If there's no shoulder or even adjacent land, he'll just shoot the driver of the pilot car, go back to his own, and bump everybody else out of his way.

[Binkie The Clown]

12. I have an electric 3-wheel bike with a bumper sticker: "My other car is a bike". (A two-wheeler)

Gas is not an issue for me.

[mitch96]

15. I have a tee shirt that says

My motorcycle gets better gas miles than your Prius!!
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[Binkie The Clown]

17. Good one! nt

[Iwasthere]

21. I just got that idea from a dream last night

Thought I would throw it out there.