What’s the Future of This Car Feature That ‘Everyone Hates’?

For the last decade, car companies have received credits as an incentive to provide start-stop technology, which shuts off a stopped car’s engine, to reduce emissions. The new Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee Zeldin, says “everyone hates” the feature and has vowed to eliminate the credit. Ben Blatt, who writes about regulatory conundrums, looks at the history and the future of the credit.