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Its not just you.... it happens to me every day. Even if there is a decent amount of cars on the highway, you can actually do less than the speedlimit and bottlenecking will still occur. I like to refer to it as a slinky effect. People speed up as soon as they can best they think the speed limit is the minimum they should be doing, only to come to a complete stop again a mile down the road.
I find it really amusing how angry people get when they cant do atleast the speed limit, especially in rural areas where there is stop lights every half a mile. While i'm hypermiling in between lights, people behind me sometimes get instantly pissed off, some even hang their head out the window looking at me like i'm and idiot.... then i catch them at the red light, me coasting up to it. I just look over and give them a nod, with an ecomodder grin on my face.
Even if there was no traffic on the road, driving 55mph vs 65mph only costs me 10 minutes of driving just about. I'd rather get 10-15% better FE and drive 10 more minutes.
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