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Old 12-18-2007, 09:31 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Lazarus View Post
To help with the slogan. Using the speeds your talking about how much more time are we talking about for the typical 10 mile commute do you figure? 5 minutes?

Five minutes is all it takes. Go slow.com
It wouldn't even be that. I get 2.77 minutes for that distance, assuming 65mph versus 50mph.

My commute takes almost an hour, and that is combined cycle where the 100kph sections are at most half the journey. So, say 30 minutes, I'm traveling at 80kph as opposed to 100kph.

s = ut, therefore t = s/u.

So, in my commute, the difference is 37.5 minutes versus 30 minutes, or 7.5 minutes. My commute is probably a long one (in terms of highway portion), so "5 minutes is all it takes" is not a stretch of the truth.
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