Auto stop/start when towing with an automatic

I am saying they do keep a foot on the foot brake, as is evidenced by the brake lights, even those you know the car features an auto parking brake.

Rerurning to the point you made that I can't grasp. How would redesigning the stop start integrated with the parking brake, alleviate the brake light issue?

"I drive a manual and an auto and treat them both the same. Handbrake on and gear lever in neutral/N."

So do I, my observation though is about others, seemingly many others, by the wreched amount of times I sit flood lit by brake lights.

Our manual does the parking brake without any intervention from us, both on and off.

My findings as well, Ocsid, but they aren't predominantly auto drivers in my opinion.👍🏻

So do I, my observation though is about others, seemingly many others, by the wreched amount of times I sit flood lit by brake lights.

IMO then you are driving too close, I have an auto and the last time i used the handbrake was probably when we returned from Spain last year on the ferry

Okay, let my clarify the point, auto drivers don't have to touch any gear selection facility from that done during starting a journey and finishing it. Though some like us, do choose to get ourselves involved. They sometimes never need to touch the parking brake year in year out either, it all happens magically.

Therefore, I have reason to believe many auto drivers do nothing but hold on the foot brake, even those whos cars could well have applied the parking brake for them. 

The issue I can't see,  relates to this thread where stop start  and autos are involved and the suggestion that integrating it with the "handbrake" would alleviate this glaring brake light. 

No clarification necessary, Ocsid. 

It is a legal requirement to apply the handbrake whenever a vehicle is left unattended. You would have to be very unsympathetic mechanically to rely on a small pawl to cover all situations.

I take your point Ocsid, maybe I assumed that many people apply the footbrake specifically in order to activate stop start, in that case if it was activated by the handbrake that would alleviate the problem. I have to concede that I can't think of a solution for the less intelligent drivers in your second paragraph.

"IMO then you are driving too close,"

I don't think so, these high level brake stop lights punch out light quite a way behind the vehicle, that penetrating visibility is actually what they are made so bright to achieve.

Nothing to do with 'idle' drivers. My Merc has a function called 'hold'. You give a brake pedal a double shove & it holds the hydraulic brake system but .... the brake lights stay on.