The start-stop deal is for CAFE standards test as much as anything.
The starter engagement is often a starter-generator thing at the flywheel, I think.
There's no starter sound on the '23 RAV-4 rental I have, but I turned it and another nanny off.
At a stop, if you just exert enough pressure on the brake pedal to hold the car, it keeps idling.
Push harder, or turn the nanny on, engine stops 'til you push the go pedal.
Pretty seamless, but I'm not a fan.
And that stuff's gonna be spendy when it breaks.
With all the different cars I drive at work with that feature I've found that once you're stopped and it shuts off lift and repress the brake pedal quickly and it will start again without needing to press the gas pedal and will stay running. I keep trying to find a way to come to stop and keep it running but nothing I've tried has worked so far.
