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- From: kwyatt@ccscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Kershner Wyatt)
- Subject: Re: More External-Combustion Info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.090627.15716@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: NCR Corp, E&M-Columbia, Columbia, SC
- References: <1ebhauINNm1l@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov18.151942.7756@nmt.edu> <STEINLY.92Nov19110116@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:06:27 GMT
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- In article <STEINLY.92Nov19110116@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:
- >
- > In article <1ebhauINNm1l@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >
- >>Personally, I can't imagine very many situations in which having to wait
- >>30 seconds between the time you turn on the ignition and the time you
- >>can start the car moving would be a serious problem.
-
- I drive two diesels and I have not found the wait for the pre-glow to be a
- big problem (somewhere between 15 and 45 secs). You just turn the key when
- you get behind the wheel, then put your seatbelt on, and do those other things
- that a lot of drivers do while there going down the driveway, and on the
- road. That glow cycle is done before I am most of the time.
-
- If I am in that much of a hurry to get moving, then I better consider a "legal"
- line of employment or stay off the highway before I kill someone.
-
- >(yeah, I know emergency vehicles are a small part of the
- >problem, but they're going to get pretty expensive if they're
- >going to have to be made or operated differently from ordinary
- >vehicles...)
-
- Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that a "warm car" wouldn't take as long
- to get going.
-
- 30 seconds is minor in the great scheme of things.
- --
- Kershner Wyatt
- kwyatt@ccscola.ColumbiaSC.ncr.com
-
- My opinions are my own and aren't necessarily my employer's.
-