Here's an unpopular option that reduces carbon emissions, reduces health issues, improves efficiency, and costs a bit of money both at purchase and in manufacturing and design. If the automakers can make better profits and push the costs onto the general public, of course they will.

I'm sure you are selflessly doing you bit for breast health.
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Fun fact, Viagra was originally supposed to be for lowering blood pressure and to alleviate angina. During the human trials it was discovered that one of the side effects was, well, what it's sold for now. Obviously the side effect was vastly more profitable.

I have a family member who retired from a large city fire department. If fire fighters failed their physical for having high blood pressure they would ask their doctor for a Viagra prescription and pass the follow up physical.

Literally 100% of them. It's clear that you've never seen a car with an auto start/stop system. The systems dynamically disable themselves depending on both load on the starter and state of the battery as you drive. Literally EVERY car does this.

(Note: we own a 2015 Camry and a 2019 Outback, neither of which has this feature)

I was helping my mom shop for a car. We went to CarMax - she had her eye on a Kia Soul. Well I pulled out of the lot (she wanted me to drive, don't ask me why) and got to a stoplight... and the tach goes to zero. I'm thinking "that's weird", and turned the key - started right up and we moved along. Then it died again at the next light... and again... I was wondering how the CarMax guys missed such an obvious problem.

After several iterations of this I came to the realization "huh, maybe this is by design?" - and, the next time we stopped, I did nothing - just hit the gas when it was time to move again. Which, of course, worked perfectly.

The feature works fine, as far as I can tell. I'm not sure I believe it makes much difference in terms of greenhouse gas emissions or fuel economy, since modern cars do idle very efficiently. And I do wonder about the effect on the starter. But, in the grand scheme of things, this seems like a silly thing to get up in arms about... which describes a LOT of the pronouncements coming out of this administration.

I drive a hybrid. When the engine isn't needed, as in idling, it automatically stops running. (Saves gas and pollution.) The car is still On and when I take my foot off the brake or touch the accelerator pedal, the engine automatically comes to life again. What could be simpler? Saves gas and pollution. But some big companies and many car owners have this love affair with gasoline. I am afraid that they hasten the coming lethal effects of global warming. (For details, read "The Next Civil
War" by Stephen Marche (2022), well researched and very prophetic.

The difference is that the mere existence of such systems is a reminder to Trump of the Obama era, so they gotta go.

The starters don't have to wear out. They are software limited to cycle a limited number of times before they are disabled.

No, really. Ask a mechanic.

Gotta kill a successful idea if it means your oil buddies who spend on your crytpo cash are gonna lose some sales.

As it stands datacentre operators are pulling all stops to bypass existing regulations. What makes anyone think they will voluntarily join this agreement?

You guys ought to get together and agree a consistent line, because here in Europe, the anti-EV types regularly tell us that the upfront costs of buying an EV are still much much higher than buying an ICEV even after subsidies.

Hence why some Europeans countries are almost entirely EV sales already.