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Old 08-07-2011, 08:51 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
The reason often given for all that idling is to keep the batteries up because the radios draw so much. I think the waste from the amount of idling they do is criminal.
Read some were they now have a system for police cars that will restart the car when the battery voltage gets low eliminating the need to for the car to idle constantly. It also had security feature that not just anyone could drive it off.
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