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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by rmah on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:04PM (#28866144)
IIRC, chokes are only necessary with carburetors to control the fuel/air mixture. I think today's cars are all fuel injection and thus don't need to have a choke. Cheaper gas powered garden equipment still has chokes, I think.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by Gigachad on Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:26PM (#28873863)
So now its all computerized. You don't get a knob on the dash to personalize exactly how much fuel to air you want. The OEM sets that and you go on about your day without ever caring.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users by CRConrad on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:08AM (#28886766)
No, not quite. The choke was basically just a kludge to enrich the fuel-air mixture beyond the limits of what a carburator would otherwise be mechanically able to achieve. If it had had this ability -- something like "below-idle", where idle is the lower limit of where the carburator can keep the engine running -- then there would never have been a choke. Fuel injection can do that because of the different physical / mechanical way it mixes air and fuel. It has nothing to do with the computerization per se.