Why does braking gradually and accelerating slowly give a car better gas mileage?

Question

Does this advice apply to all cars?

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Answer 1

in proper eli5 : when you press the gas pedal harder, the car uses more gas. So pressing it softly uses less than when you press it hard. Braking doesn’t matter, except when you’re braking you’re usually not accelerating so braking earlier means accelerating less