![]() ![]() In the city cycle test - it’s almost half the total time stopped. Together, both tests take 20 minutes - and around one-third of that time is spent stopped. Those valleys over there? The car is stopped. ![]() The most non-representative aspect of the tests is the amount of time the cars spend stopped in both the city and in the highway tests as well. ![]() They’re just not - the official test numbers are always better than you can achieve out there, on the road, and that leads to a lot of customer dissatisfaction. Unfortunately the tests are not very representative of actual driving. They’re lab tests from which the official fuel figures are derived - and these numbers are very important to carmakers, because fuel consumption is increasingly important to regulators and buyers. The real reason these automated systems exist in many new cars is so that the carmaker can legally ‘game’ the official fuel consumption tests. ![]()
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