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Originally Posted by Hersbird
The old Jeeps before the LLV had an ignition cutoff tied to weight on the driver's seat. They ended up all disabled pretty quickly but that was back in the day when safety was job 3 or 4. Mainly the problem was cutting off while just reaching a little for some mail. I don't know, it was before my time here.
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I took a Fiat Argo taxi which featured start-stop and a manual transmission today. A car developed for "emerging" markets featuring such tech, so it might not be much rocket-science to implement, even though it lacked some sort of cutoff tied to the presence of the driver aboard.