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Originally Posted by Botnst
Are gas gauges linear?
Nonlinear and ...
Scaled to tank shape?
Biased toward the top?
Or is it all about psychology?
It is mt perception that every vehicle I have owned burned fuel very slowly until between 1/4 and 1/2 tank, then the fuel seems to run out faster.
What do y'all think?
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I never figured out why the increments in our MB fuel gauges are not evenly spaced.
Maybe they knew about this non-linear property and compensated for it by making the gauges this way.