Anybody see or hear anything about Mazda's plans for this? I happened to cross in a pedestrian walkway in front of a CR-V the other day. The CR-V stopped and shut-down, as soon as the person pressed the gas to proceed I heard the engine restart. Sounded like a normal start where you press the start button. It didn't seem seamless. I'm just thinking if you need to floor it and get out of the way of something fast how is this thing going to react. It seemed like it took a least a second to restart.
I'm thinking if you have a whole line of cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic it's going to take forever to get somewhere. They would be constantly shutting down/restarting.
I guess the saving grace is you can disable it (how long before the govt mandates it can't be disabled) but you have to disable each time you start the car.
I'm thinking if you have a whole line of cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic it's going to take forever to get somewhere. They would be constantly shutting down/restarting.
I guess the saving grace is you can disable it (how long before the govt mandates it can't be disabled) but you have to disable each time you start the car.