This morning, I was running low but the Sunoco station on the NJ Turnpike was out of gas! No problem, very bizzare and rare, but I had 25 miles on the trip computer and was sure there was another gas station on the way.
15 miles later, BAM. Traffic jam on 276 West in PA for like 10 miles. next service station, 25 miles! Car's computer read 0 miles at this point for at least 15 minutes of bumper to bumper traffic.
Fast forward after sweating bullets on my way to an important work conference, I got off an exit, found gas all is good. But, car took 15.4 gallons. Surprising I was sure that I was almost empty. Interesting, quick google search, capacity is 17 gallons. I was sweating bullets for nothing, I had at least 1 to 1.5 gallon left.
Positive now is that I have a much better idea of how far I can go when the computer reads 0. good to know, 0 miles is about 2 gallons left.
But, it's BS. With the technology built into cars today I shouldn't have to guess how much gas is in the damn car.
Why don't cars read out how many gallons you have left in the car on the read-out? Not how many miles to 0. Not a yellow warning light. Not a wildly inaccurate analog display. But rather, a very clear simple display of how many #$ING gallons are in the damn car. Simple. It's all I need to know.
Is it that the general public can't handle this information and interpret it properly? Do car manu's purposely just exaggerate the display and dumb it down for the average Joe? "Hey mr engineer, don't put how many gallons left, people aren't that bright. Just put 0 on the display when there's 2 gallons left" Yeah, good idea.
It would just be super helpful for those of us who aren't retarded and use this information to make our lives easier.
I understand fuel in the lines/pump/injectors wouldn't make this 100% accurate, but a very good guess seems very doable.
I know many of you will argue anything and come up with reasons why this is dumb, but with all the other useless crap in cars this seems like a feature that is helpful to some.
15 miles later, BAM. Traffic jam on 276 West in PA for like 10 miles. next service station, 25 miles! Car's computer read 0 miles at this point for at least 15 minutes of bumper to bumper traffic.
Fast forward after sweating bullets on my way to an important work conference, I got off an exit, found gas all is good. But, car took 15.4 gallons. Surprising I was sure that I was almost empty. Interesting, quick google search, capacity is 17 gallons. I was sweating bullets for nothing, I had at least 1 to 1.5 gallon left.
Positive now is that I have a much better idea of how far I can go when the computer reads 0. good to know, 0 miles is about 2 gallons left.
But, it's BS. With the technology built into cars today I shouldn't have to guess how much gas is in the damn car.
Why don't cars read out how many gallons you have left in the car on the read-out? Not how many miles to 0. Not a yellow warning light. Not a wildly inaccurate analog display. But rather, a very clear simple display of how many #$ING gallons are in the damn car. Simple. It's all I need to know.
Is it that the general public can't handle this information and interpret it properly? Do car manu's purposely just exaggerate the display and dumb it down for the average Joe? "Hey mr engineer, don't put how many gallons left, people aren't that bright. Just put 0 on the display when there's 2 gallons left" Yeah, good idea.
It would just be super helpful for those of us who aren't retarded and use this information to make our lives easier.
I understand fuel in the lines/pump/injectors wouldn't make this 100% accurate, but a very good guess seems very doable.
I know many of you will argue anything and come up with reasons why this is dumb, but with all the other useless crap in cars this seems like a feature that is helpful to some.
