But whether it’s 390 or 400 or 425 at full tank but always 45-50 at a quarter tank. I really doubt the computer is halving my mpg estimates.
I wonder if the computer has a better sense of how much gas is in your tank than your gas gauge? My almost out light goes on at about 2-3 gallons and it often seems the gauge is reading just barely under 1/4th tank on a 15.6 gallon tank, which if I’ve pushed it to the limit, I can usually put in over 16 gallons.
I can see the underlying algorithm working the mileage down so that it’s generally 45-50 whenever the tank is about 1/4 full as a legal protection (not knowing just how your fuel efficiency is going to be for that last 1/4 tank).
If you’re driving from St. Louis to Chicago and you’re fuel efficiency is on the “highway” driving; you might have “100 miles” left based on that trajectory/usage, but you hit the Chicago traffic thinking you have that 100 miles only to see it dwindle quickly in that stop-and-go traffic and run out before you can actually get to a gas station. I can see some looking to file lawsuits for the added costs of remedying that.
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So do you think when I get to a quarter tank I really only do have 50 miles left?
To me it would be irresponsible for the car to tell me I have 400 miles and I plan accordingly to my next fill-up, but only to find out I’m 50 miles short!
I should probably check how many miles I go from full to warning. I’m sure it’s more than the 200 total the algorithm seems to indicate tho
My car doesn’t show a “miles to empty” once it’s around 2 gals of fuel left in the tank (which is around 50 miles that it shows before showing “Low”).
Not sure how much fuel your car holds on a full tank (or when it hits “1/4”).
I do know that many manufacturers are going to implement measures that will limit their legal liabilities. What they look like will vary by manufacturer, I’m sure.
Randolph E Corrigan, 61, was the sole caregiver for his 86-year-old grandmother, his family says
Not the most important part of this story, but, 86 - 61 = 25 years apart seems like an awfully tight timeline for grandparenthood. 
Not if she was a step-grandparent.
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True, I hadn’t thought of that.
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reading a workbook on alexithymia and it makes the following statement:
“A study of 100 individuals found that 41.5% had alexithymia.”
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One dude in the study had it just in his nuts bc he’s a shameless man-whore
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What that a result of faulty math, or a typo?
For example if I said:
“9% of putts that come up short don’t go in.” That’s a typo. Not bad math. It should have been:
“90% of putts that come up short don’t go in.”
It may have been that they could only get the data on 94 of the individuals (the others were N/A?) and that of those, 39 had alexithymia.
I would expect to see “94 individuals in the study” in this context.
Baffled when I saw the new record was 41.2 innings. The text of a story on CBS Sports says the streak is 41 2/3 innings, which makes much more sense to me.
That’s been standard in baseball as long as I can remember. St least the last 50-60 years. They use .1 for 1/3 of an inning and .2 for 2/3’s of an inning. It always felt funny to me but it sort of makes sense.
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I assume this is an error that will be remedied at some point. They don’t do curves at this school. I think the 4th quarter grade and the final grade were switched.
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Almost certainly what happened, since that would explain the 73.62 to the accuracy shown. Whether it will be remedied, not as certain.
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10 million Krypton days?