"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 14/09/2019 18:53, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I drove my first 'stop/start' vehicle today. Press the brake pedal down
and the engine stops, apply the handbrake and release the foot-brake and
the engine restarts - what a pointless system for anyone who drives
properly and uses the handbrake.

Apart from hill starts, who uses the handbrake these days ?.

I do, almost every time I park the car.

I just leave it parked in 1st gear hand brake OFF,

No point in doing it that way instead.

unless I happen to be parked (rarely) on more than a slight gradient.