How far can your car drive on empty?

[Clairity]

I wouldn't swear by this but it's pretty interesting! http://tankonempty.com

[nina]

But my gas light comes on when it gets to the next to last tick, not the E...so I don't understand. But I have always been tempted to see how far my car really will go after it's PAST the E lol...but who the hell wants to run out of gas?

[Clairity]

But my gas light comes on when it gets to the next to last tick, not the E...so I don't understand. But I have always been tempted to see how far my car really will go after it's PAST the E lol...but who the hell wants to run out of gas? I certainly don't.. in fact I don't let my gauge fall anywhere near the "E". I heard about this website on some news program and supposedly the guy who runs the site has people emailing him all the time about how far they've gone before running out of gas.. some even film themselves and put it on youtube.

[Mes Tarrant]

It says my car can go an average of 44 or so miles after hitting empty.. that's just.. wow, that's a lot.. but makes me wonder if the car manufacturers were just incapable of making accurate gas dials, or if they do this sort of thing on purpose? I don't know.

[Clairity]

It says my car can go an average of 44 or so miles after hitting empty.. that's just.. wow, that's a lot.. but makes me wonder if the car manufacturers were just incapable of making accurate gas dials, or if they do this sort of thing on purpose? I don't know. If I remember correctly.. they stated that the car manufacturers do it to give us some extra mileage so that we don't actually run out of gas as soon as the gauge hits "E".

[Michael]

my car book thingy says I have an 1/8 of a tank after I hit E. I have a small 11 gallon tank so I'd have 1.375 gallons left on E. I get 30 miles to a gallon so I could go for 41.25 miles. I'm too scared to test it though.