Japan: Excessive Idling v. Start-Stop EcoDrivers

[SVOboy]

These last two weeks in Japan I have been painfully aware of two competing types of Japanese drivers: the sleep in the car for 4 hours while it is idling on the side of the road driver and the fuel conscious ecodriver the stops the engine at traffic lights.The IdlerThe Idler is a quintessentially Japanese [...]Related posts:

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[MazdaMatt]

Interesting article. Thanks.

[gascort]

The audi system is neat, but there's no way other drivers will deal with that type of driving without a huge amount of PR/education.

[MazdaMatt]

gascort, I agree. I also worry about people watching their green light speed more than the road around them. You can't roll through that green light if there's a car stopped in your lane already! In order to be acceptable there would have to be a sudden massive market penetration (10%), then drivers would be easily aware of who is pacing lights and what they are doing.