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Old 07-13-2010, 01:48 AM   #13 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard View Post
Roads are typically fairly smooth, and other than potholes, they do not have "a significant roughness in relation to the wheel diameter".
Err... And where do YOU live? Around here, a good many roads (the major paved ones, not dirt or paved side roads) are pretty darned rough. I can & do see significant differences in real-time mpg on different stretches of (level) road. And of course there's I-80 over the Sierra: the last time I drove that, I was worrying about high-centering on the ruts that traffic had worn into the concrete.

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