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Originally Posted by Neusser

It's mostly useful. Over here, people would typically turn off their cars in traffic jams, a hassle that is no longer necessary. My wife even did this in the US before we decided to pull up and move to Germany (where she is from). It was engrained. Her father was an automotive engineer. I realize this concept is entirely foreign to people who've never thought much about it.

About the only place it is not useful is in stop and go traffic where it de- and reactivates in too short a time span, which is annoying and, ofc, rather ineffective.

One of the reasons I can get such great average consumption is that the engine switches off at longer lights.

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