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> if they are in a room with their car while it runs, they will die within minutes FWIW, that's not true with a modern car and a functioning catalytic converte
by rootusrootus 4y ago
> if they are in a room with their car while it runs, they will die within minutes
FWIW, that's not true with a modern car and a functioning catalytic converter. It's gotten considerably more difficult in recent years to kill yourself even by piping the exhaust from your car directly back into the passenger compartment.
Also, an increasing number of us have no exhaust pipes, which weakens this aspect of the anti-car crusade.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoI recently got an old (56 years, no cat, carb'd) car running after years of sitting. within about 10 seconds my nose rankled up, and after about 30 seconds my CO2 meter, which I had totally forgot I placed in the shop because it never went off years ago - I did this because I had propane heaters - went of like nuts for an hour! So I was glad to know that it worked, and clearly the car was running far too rich!
- rootusrootus 4y agoOnce in a while I'll be driving behind a classic car and all I can think of is "how the heck did we survive when every car made that kind of stink?" I grew up in the 80s, when catalytic converters were a thing but cars were generally still carb'd, and it was bad enough then. > 56 years That makes me feel old, BTW. My brother and I have a project car we share and it is almost exactly that old (Chevy Nova). It definitely isn't doing any favors for the climate, but it doesn't get driven much.
- bertil 4y agoI’m happy to run the experiment with you as a subject.