How far can you ACTUALLY drive on 0 miles to empty

Hey guys it's Mike here, welcome to Autoblog. I've just been out running a few errands and I just noticed that I have about, let me see here, I'll show you. I have four miles till empty. So I thought why not do a little experiment and see how far you can drive until you run out of gas. Now it's going to go down to say about zero miles to empty and that's what I want to know. How far can you drive on zero miles till empty tank. Now obviously it's going to vary from car to car. My car here is a Ford Fusion four-cylinder and also today we have cold weather conditions so that's going to affect it as well. So what I'm doing is I've set up two GoPros. One right there and then we have one right here on the steering column that is going to monitor how many miles is left and once it hits zero miles till empty I'm going to reset the trip meter or the trip computer so we can actually see in real time how many miles I'm driving until the car completely runs out of gas and I'm stuck on the side of the road. All right you guys ready? I'm going to turn on the GoPro on the steering column. Four miles till empty. Let's go. All right so we got three miles to empty right now and I'm just turning out on the highway. I know for a fact that I have at least seven miles of highway driving to do until I get to, not home, but I'm close to where I live. So we're just gonna have to see if I get stuck on the road on the highway or in a more of a residential area. Two miles till empty. All right we got one mile till empty. Oh crap. All right we got zero miles till empty. Zero. Zero. Okay I'm gonna reset one of the trip meters here. Okay so right now I'm on I-79 it's an interstate here in Pittsburgh and I've gone 1.6 miles on zero miles till empty. I'm gonna flip back here so you guys can see that it's at zero miles and I've gone 1.9 miles. All right so this is my exit. I've gone four miles almost it's three point there it is four miles. Maybe I'll make it all the way home who knows. I'm gonna flip back again just to show you it's zero miles till empty and I've gone 4.3 miles. All right I'm coming up to a really busy intersection up here and this is not a spot where I want to run out of gas. As you can see here 4.9 miles. GoPro set up right there and you guys are right there. Come on I don't want to get stuck right here. Might make a fun video but not right here. All right so I haven't run out of gas yet. All right so I just hit 10 miles. I've been driving around here for a while and pretty interesting. You can at least drive 10 miles on a normal midsize car like this one right here. I didn't know you were going to be able to drive this far and just to check back here still says obviously zero miles to empty. Trying to document it here as good as I can. All right so we're at 14 miles we've driven now and I'm getting kind of like what the hell. There's a lot of gas left in the car at zero miles to empty. I'm almost like disappointed but again I guess it's a good thing. I mean if you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere. I'm in a sort of residential area right now. I mean if you're stuck somewhere and you have a little ways to go until you find a gas station it's a good thing. We're just going to keep on driving until I run out of gas. Okay we got 15.4 miles. I mean this thing can't just keep on going for too much longer. This is crazy. Up this long ass hill here. You can see this hill. Go! I don't want to get stuck in an intersection. All right my battery on this one gopro is about to run out. So I mean I'm it's gone 18 miles now. 18 freaking miles. But I figure no it's gone 17 miles and I currently have 18 miles per gallon. So if there is one mile or one gallon left when it says zero miles to empty I would assume that I can probably go about one more mile until the car has zero fuel left in the tank. All right there we have it. I tried to pull out of this street here onto another street and it wouldn't really do it for me. So right now I'm I'll show you here. I just pulled off of uh this is called Green Tree Road right out here. So I pulled in right here and I'm going to try to get up this little incline here. I don't think it's going to work. Just to make sure that we're completely out of gas. So I'm going to try to start it again here. All right so as you can tell here we were able to drive 21.6 miles on zero miles till empty. Now obviously I knew that this was going to happen so I did bring an extra canister of gas. So let's get some gas in this car so I can get home. And being a Ford we need this thing right here. Capless fuel tank system and then you can get some gas. All right so I got about 0.9 gallons of gas. All right let's uh try to start it up here. Okay so obviously we still have low fuel. We'll see here what it says. Still says zero miles till empty. But however now I know I have about almost one gallon of gas so I can get to a gas station at least. So let me know what you thought of this video here and this little experiment that we did. Did you find it informative? Did you think it was stupid? It's up to you. If you did like it though share it with a friend you know would like it as well. And remember to follow on Instagram at Autoblog. Facebook at Autoblog and Twitter at Autoblog. Whatever is your personal preference when it comes to social media. And if this is your first time stopping by and you haven't already please subscribe. I'll see you in the next video. Bye bye. Okay real quick before we end the video. As you guys noticed this was done in my Fusion. I also have an F-150. Completely different vehicles and engines obviously. Four-cylinder versus a half-ton truck with a big V8. If you guys like this video that we just watched here and you would like to see it done on a truck with a big V8, give it a thumbs up and let me know and we'll make it happen.