So you are driving along and the low fuel light comes...what do you do?  For me I keep driving for about another 25 miles or so before I pull up to the pumps.  Much to my surprise I am not only quite normal (my mother will be so proud) but I even all a bit on the conservative side.  A new survey revealed that a quarter of drivers believe they can eek out at least another 40 miles when the low fuel light comes on. Two million drivers even admitted to driving with the warning light on almost permanently, mainly in the hope of finding cheaper fuel.

No big news here, men are the biggest culprits as they tend to believe that the car still has enough fuel for another 32 miles when the low fuel light comes on.

Personally, I had a friend who took this to the level of science carrying a gas can when ever he got a new car and running it until it ran out of gas so he'd know exactly how many miles after the light went on before he'd be sitting on the side of the road.

So how about you? How many miles do you try to go once the fuel light comes on?

**FYI: Every year 827,000 of us ignore the helpful glow of the warning light, run out of fuel and break down.

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