This is probably already revealing how old some of us are, but we remember that we had to start our cars by turning the key and waiting to hear the engine “catch”. At that point you knew the engine was ok to proceed, and if you stopped turning the key it wouldn’t die.
How does the starter today (push button) know all this, and it never seems to get it wrong? I have never heard a push button starter fail to get it right unless some other issue like dead battery, etc. (and btw, today’s engines seem to have so far fewer issues like we used to have)
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Regarding your last sentence, modern manufacturing processes made a lot of improvements to ICE in general.
With old cars you had to change your motor oil for the first time shortly after purchase and you were told to drive sedately for the first 1000km or so.
Today the inside of your cylinders is honed to a very precise degree both in surface roughness and diameter, and the piston rings are coated with chrome or ceramics. So today there is no more early first oil change.
And thats only one example 🙂
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