Once inside, depress the brake pedal, push the engine start/stop button — located immediately to the right of the steering wheel — and the Cruze springs to life.

Also called keyless start, push-button start, intelligent key, smart key or digital key, this feature allows you to fire up your car's engine without fumbling for a key in your pocket or purse.

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed rolling back the federal incentives that helped push the automatic start-stop feature in millions of U.S. cars.

Following an August 2009 crash that killed four, Toyota told drivers to "firmly and steadily push the button for at least three seconds to turn off the engine. Do NOT tap the engine start/stop ...

She hates this button! Is the auto start-stop button useful? Is it just a nuisance? She says it should go, but what are the facts?

Toyota says that the three-second depression time is meant to keep people from accidentally hitting the button and killing the engine, which would also knock out power steering and other systems.

Toyota has modified the start-stop buttons in most of its models so that they shut the engine off after three quick pushes, or after being continuously pushed for two seconds.

‘I’m a mechanic - you should always press a little-known button before starting your car' The popular mechanic Scotty Kilmer has told drivers to turn off a certain function or face expensive ...