[usaar333]

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]

And a good excuse to get out of the house for a few minutes.

[jonny_eh]

And an excuse to turn on your car, and prevent the battery from dying.

[stronglikedan]

And a good excuse to just drive for a bit, if you find it highly enjoyable, like I do.

[stevehawk]

friendly 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.

[lnanek2]

At 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...

[jonny_eh]

It's better than nothing, no?

[greenyoda]

Starting 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.

[FireBeyond]

My fire department bought a new ambulance.

Emergency lights use a lot of power, as you can imagine. Even the LED ones. But we also don't want to idle on scene for a while.

So new ambulances (and engines, too) have a nice feature. Leave the lights running. Turn the engine off.

When the battery voltage gets low enough, the vehicle will start the engine, let it run til the voltage is better, then shut itself back off.

[oarabbus_]

> 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.

[000000coffee]

yes, but you don't do it for the battery. You're supposed to do it because it circulates fluids

[tonystubblebine]

+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.

[ssully]

I 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.

[jcomis]

Nope, it's seen nearly triple the usual demand in the US.