Dollywood QR Code Drink Cups

YoshiFan:

The thing I don’t like about having a limit that amount of oz the cup has is that those machines can sometimes have problems.

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of when reading about this system, both the ounce limit and the time limit. I'm trying to remember the last time I went to Cedar Point and the first ice dispenser I tried actually worked. And there definitely have been times when an entire machine has no carbonation and you have to wait to use another one.

CP Chris:

it seems like an unnecessary inconvenience in order for them to make sure you don't get a single drop more than you paid for, on a product that everyone knows costs them basically nothing

Quoted for emphasis. I mean, presumably someone had to do the math to determine it was a savings for the park, right? Is it worth the trade-off of a ****tier customer experience? Is the 0.00003 cents savings from having to pour out my uncarbonated Mountain Dew helping pay for a new rollie coaster?

GoBucks89:

I haven't figured a way to disable lane assist (or auto engine shutoff at idle) beyond current driving cycle...

This is by design for start-stop. To achieve the higher fuel economy numbers that start-stop provides, the vehicle must always reset start-stop to be on by default when switched off. Otherwise, the fuel economy numbers are averaged between start-stop engaged and disengaged. So the incentive for manufacturers is to have the system default to on when you start your car.

However, the counter to start-stop is that so many things under the hood have to be heavier duty versions - reinforced starter, higher capacity and/or multiple batteries, cooling systems, additional sensors, etc. - that it's difficult to see how start-stop provides an improvement when considering a vehicle's carbon footprint holistically, despite the "MPG" numbers being higher on the window sticker.

Classic example of regulation doing the exact opposite of what it was intended to do.

I'll have to check, but I think there's a way to permanently disable it on my wife's VW Tiguan. If I recall, you can set up driver profiles and I want to say I created one for me and did disable auto-start/stop. I rarely drive it though so I forget to activate the profile when I do. My wife likes it for some reason and leaves it on.

I've never owned a car (solo, not joint with my wife) newer than 2012, but I've been driving a lot of rentals lately due to totaling two of my daily drivers in the last two months. The deer population around here is absolutely off the charts, and I'm inadvertently doing what I can to keep it down I guess, at the benevolent expense of my insurance company. All the rentals, including the yawn-fest Nissan Altima I'm driving now, have lane assist. I find it more distracting than helpful. I haven't found a way to disable it yet, but I did in the last two I had (Mazda and Audi).