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Do that in NJ and your car will be gone when you come back for it.
That started happening here during the pandemic. Reports of people warming up their cars in their driveways and coming back to the car being gone (sometimes with the kids in it).
I've been in Alaska for 15 years and in this land of remote auto starts I'm still a hop in and go kinda guy. Now that I'm retired my car is always nightly in a heated garage so not necessary for a warm up period.
I used to start up my car after being parked all day at work if outside temps were really low, -20f and down and also left it plugged in all day to a "head bolt". Head bolt= 110v outlet for drivers to plug in to power a block heater, oil pan heater and battery blanket or charger, normal winterization stuff in Fairbanks.
When very cold here, -40f, after a warm idle as you start driving you'll bump along for 1/4 mile or so as your tires start to round back out.
Yes, I understand. I lived in Alaska for 3 years (in the Anchorage area). However, I am observing this idling forever thing in a very temperate climate.
In Las Vegas, it isn't about warming the engine; it is about cooling the car down.
I do find it a bit wasteful to watch the moms line up at the elementary school in their SUVs starting perhaps 45 minutes before school lets out, idling the entire time with the A/C on high.
What do you consider a safety hazard. Where ae you in relation to fumes in a traffic jam or at a red light?
Across the street they have a 4-year-old. Any kid in the neighborhood jumping in that and monkeying around and that vehicle back directly into my house (for instance). They leave it running sometimes they are in it (for a long time) and sometimes they go into the house leaving it running. Sometimes I see it running with that 4-ish year-old kid in it. I had to catch that kid having got loose from the house on two occasions when it was barely able to walk. I told myself one more strike and I am calling child protective services. It's the woman, not the man. He's not aware of half of her shxt. I try to stay out of it.
But, that does not explain why so many people at Chipotle and Starbucks need to keep their vehicles idling for 20 minutes or more. I think it is more of a brain dead thing overall.
I'll add my pet peeve about people who park in handicapped space without a placard or license plate. The worst one I've seen was a few weeks ago at Costco. Some idiot parked across two handicapped spaces. And I'm not talking just over the line. The were practically parallel across the the two spaces.
In Las Vegas, it isn't about warming the engine; it is about cooling the car down.
I do find it a bit wasteful to watch the moms line up at the elementary school in their SUVs starting perhaps 45 minutes before school lets out, idling the entire time with the A/C on high.
Make the little wusses walk to school the way we had to. (She said in true Geezerdom mode!)
In Las Vegas, it isn't about warming the engine; it is about cooling the car down.
I do find it a bit wasteful to watch the moms line up at the elementary school in their SUVs starting perhaps 45 minutes before school lets out, idling the entire time with the A/C on high.
In the northeast, most school districts provide buses. When we moved to SoCal, you had to live a certain distance away to have that. So for two years I drove three kids to three different schools, running the engine if there was no place to park. If I could park in a designated area, the kids knew to go there for pickup. Drop-off was a different story and I'd have to wait in the line.
More pollution, more cars on the road, more traffic, but... budget cuts. Go figure.
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