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Automated engine-off coasting..
I wonder if anyone has experimented with this yet.. in most modern cars, pretty much everything is governed electronically. I am just curious how feasible it would be to have an electronic controller do all the 'hard work'.
Say you're on a road with a 50mph speed limit. You could have a controller gently accelerating the car to 55mph, engage the clutch, turn off the engine, let the car coast to 45mph, restart the engine, disengage the clutch and gently accelerate back to 55mph. Wash, rinse, repeat. Kind of like a hypermiling cruise control.
Of course its practicality might be limited to roads with little other traffice, but the concept sounds neat in my mind..
Has something like this been tried yet?
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