Ford Patents a Car That Kills Its Own Engine at the Pump

Automatic engine stop-start has spent years shutting off your engine at red lights whether you asked for it or not. Ford now wants to extend that logic to the gas station, and it has filed a patent describing a vehicle that turns itself off while you refuel. The idea is straightforward enough to explain in a sentence: the car figures out that you have pulled up to a pump, and it cuts the engine for you.