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And less reason to order delivery. At least if you own a car, driving to pick your own food up is easier now (less traffic, no parking issues, you are less like
by usaar333 6y ago
And less reason to order delivery. At least if you own a car, driving to pick your own food up is easier now (less traffic, no parking issues, you are less likely to be in a social event that prevents you from leaving). And one less potentialy infected person handling your food.
- elliekelly 6y agoAnd a good excuse to get out of the house for a few minutes.
- jonny_eh 6y agoAnd an excuse to turn on your car, and prevent the battery from dying.
- stevehawk 6y agofriendly reminder that just starting a car isn't going to prevent the battery from dying. You need to get in a decent drive and a 2 mile jaunt to McDonald's probably isn't enough.
- jonny_eh 6y agoIt's better than nothing, no?
- 000000coffee 6y agoyes, but you don't do it for the battery. You're supposed to do it because it circulates fluids
- greenyoda 6y agoStarting the car takes a lot of power from the battery (the battery has to run the starter motor to crank the engine), so if you don't drive the car long enough to recharge the battery to at least where it was before the trip, you'll have less charge than you had before. If you repeat that cycle enough times, the battery will eventually die.
- oarabbus_ 6y ago> so if you don't drive the car long enough to recharge the battery to at least where it was before the trip, you'll have less charge than you had before. If you repeat that cycle enough times, the battery will eventually die. I've not tested the low threshold, but a 20 minute drive seems to be more than sufficient.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI'm surprised why cars still don't include a charge controller that counts the amount of energy in/out of the battery and gives you a battery gauge, or even a simple voltage gauge. We can do it just fine in cheap laptops (with lithium batteries which require more complex charge management), why can't we do it for cars that cost tens of thousands?
- TylerE 6y agoCars have had voltage gauges for decades. The really aren’t very useful because essentially by the time the battery reads less than its nominal 12v it’s basically dead.
- Nextgrid 6y agoTrue but it will at least confirm that the battery is dead, as opposed to something else. I remember back when I was a kid my parents' car would not crank (you hear the solenoid engage but the engine doesn't turn) and nobody had any idea what it was (if you're not a car person and this never happens to you it might not be obvious especially considering all the other electricals still work fine on the slightly lower voltage). A voltmeter showing below 12V or a "low battery - <12.2V" light would've quickly cleared that up.
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- lnanek2 6y agoAt least here a drive to McDonalds results in a 15 minute wait in the drive through, so there's more charging going on than just the trip. In n Out is even worse, their line fills up the Costco parking lot...
- stronglikedan 6y agoAnd a good excuse to just drive for a bit, if you find it highly enjoyable, like I do.
- ssully 6y agoI have done the opposite. Before this, I would do take out once or twice a week and just pick it up on my way home from work. Never used delivery apps. Since lock down, I use Doordash 2-3 times a week.
- tonystubblebine 6y ago+1 for driving being easier. We park a car on the street in Brooklyn. Normally this is a huge hassle where we have basically memorized when are good times to use the car so we can find a spot again. But twice now we have used the car and found our original parking spot still available.
- jcomis 6y agoNope, it's seen nearly triple the usual demand in the US.