We're now well into the holiday travel season, when every driver must answer a critical question while on the road:
Can I get there with the gas I have?
Like most people, you probably don't think much about taking these risks when your gas tank is pretty full and, given those circumstances, it really isn't something you need to think much about.
But things change when you find yourself on the margins, when you maybe have just a little more than fumes to get where you really want to go. Can you get there with what you've got? Or should you seriously disrupt what you had planned to do, even to the point of missing out on part of it, for the sake of ensuring that you can get there at all?
Just how should you place your bets?
Fortunately for you, Geek Logik author Garth Sundem has already considered these questions, balancing factors such as how strongly you believe you can actually do it, how important it really is for you to get there, and minor details like how much time and gas you have. Our tool below takes his math and can tell you whether or not you ought to stop for gas now, or if you ought to hold out until later.
And before you ask, we're not really sure how one might access this tool while they're driving. We're still working out those bugs and until then, you really should be paying attention to the road and not surfing the web while driving. For now, think of this as a simulation to tell you what to do if you should ever encounter these circumstances on the road....
The result that tips the balance between stopping for gas and keeping going is a Fill Up Index Factor of 1. Above that level, you really ought to be stopping for gas. Below it, and you've determined that getting there is more important. As always, we provide this information so you can play with the numbers to find where your real limits are!
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