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Originally Posted by endurance
While I've always been a pretty safe driver, hypermiling cuts both ways for me. While I do generally keep better following distances and watch further down the road, I also use that following gap as a cushion to avoid braking and sometimes can get rather close to cars if I'm expecting them to resume quickly. I also watch my SGII a little too much and now have a traffic app (Waze) on my windshield mounted Android that serves as a distraction. Add it all up and I'm probably worse off as a hypermiler than I was before.
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I agree. All these gadgets are aids to improve your awareness. Over-dependence on them can be a distraction. The best use of them is made when you can predict or foretell what the gauge is reading, and not require your looking at it.
The same is true of any instrumentation. Can you tell when you are going 20 or 30 or 40 MPH without looking at the speedometer? You probably can. That's the desirable goal with the ScanGauge or other instrumentation and fuel economy techniques.
