How far can you go after the gas light has come on in your car?

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This made me chuckle. The thing for them to worry about is that there's not much reason to come back to the site (Zillow has a milder form of the same problem), but maybe they'll figure something out for that.

For this to be accurate, everyone who is voting has to have driven their car until the gas completely ran out. I'm assuming most of them haven't.

Do I have too much faith in humanity?

or, you could estimate it fairly accurately using the following formula: (fuel tank capacity - gallons needed to fill tank when gas light turns on) * (average miles per gallon)

I have about 4 gallons left when the light turns on. 2 gallons left when the needle dips below the "empty" line. The emptiest my tank has ever been is 0.5 gallons left.

"... For this to be accurate, everyone who is voting has to have driven their car until the gas completely ran out. I'm assuming most of them haven't. ..."

I've tried. In a 3Ltr, V6 I've managed to get a good 20Km of travel at a very slow 40Km/h. I won't go into the details but the gauge was empty when I left and by the time I made the destination I wasn't going to risk it driving to the service station to fill it up. I cannot believe the average of 47miles ( http://tankonempty.com/viewcar/Toyota/Camry ) the gauges must be out of calibration or they are the 4 cydr. models.

Here's an interesting article about "Justin Davis" the creator of "Tank On Empty" ~ http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/16632

Hmm... is this the redditisation of news.YC?

Isn't pg or someone supposed to be behind the scenes, pulling irrelevant crap?

There's lots of stories on that site saying tank on empty results in overheated and broken fuel pumps.

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