our car beeps at us when the temperature dips below 40ºF, and beeps again at 32ºF

Lord knows what it would think about -21ºF!

It's annoying if it's hovering around 40 - drops below and beeps, then the warning light goes off when it goes back up, then beeps again.

same beep as ZOMG! NO FUEL!

which is more worrying than "It's a bit nippy outside"

our old one had a warning light, at which point you knew you had 30-40 miles left, roughly. The new one beeps at 50 miles remaining, then again at 25 miles.

It's pretty useful, but I don't believe it.

There was an episode of Top Gear a while back where Jeremy Clarkson drove an Audi from London to Edinburgh and back again on a single tank - the computer said he was down to zero miles while he was still quite a way from the finish point and he still made it...

Cars tell you when you're low on gas? What a neat concept!
My gas gauge doesn't work so I just have to fill up every 200 miles.

Mine *used* to beep at me & have a light come on. Of course, it also *used* to point to how much gas was left instead of staying on 3/4 tank ALL THE TIME!

Haven't read anything on the why, but I suspect it has something to do with road conditions possibly being slushy or slippery, around, but not quite to the freezing point.

People who've never lived with cold for months on end won't understand not putting on a coat when you go outside (even just to run next door). I *have* lived in it and barely remember how normal it seems.

Since you're going to work I hope this means you're feeling better.

It was really cold this morning, eh? floppycorpse's car wouldn't start this morning and then it just so happened that today our apartment parking lot was plowed, so it got towed. Double, double whammy.

OMG someone in customer service on the phone the other day said it was NEGATIVE FORTY-EIGHT in Nebraska. WTF? Did you know that was even possible on earth?