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There’s something strange I’ve noticed about human psychology when it comes to the “you’re almost out of gas” dashboard warning light. I have two vintage cars that don’t have the yellow low-fuel light, and two slightly newer ones that do. On the vintage cars, I’ll usually fill up when . Sometimes I’ll push it until that needle’s really hugging E (or R, as the Germans like).

But I treat the l0w-fuel warning light on my modern cars completely differently. On those cars, I’ve been Pavlovian-trained to not even think about filling up until that light comes on. And then, perversely, I always try and see how much further I can go before I crack and fill up. Because I’m stupid.

But I don’t have to be ignorant and stupid, thanks to . This website gives you a real-life number of miles you can drive when your low-fuel light comes on, for a whole variety of cars. The data is all crowdsourced from real-world drivers, so while I wouldn’t necessarily trust each estimate down to the tenth of a mile, it’s probably accurate enough to estimate how screwed you are (or aren’t) when you’re out on that desert highway and the next fuel stop is 4o miles away.

Plus, it’s interesting to compare the on-empty ranges of different cars. It allows for what may be the only time a will beat a : 61.98 miles to 43.46 miles!

We first wrote about this website , but it appears to have a larger database now.

One thing worth mentioning, though: lots of electric fuel pumps are , and can burn out if you run out of gas too often. So while it’s okay to take some risks, all the time.