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Old 07-23-2011, 01:11 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by nemo View Post
If you have a GPS and look at the stopped time verse travel time it will give you an idea of your type of commute. It could be expressed as a percentage, if someone wanted to go to that much trouble.
That's a cool idea. Never thought of that.

The EPA city test has idling down as 18% of the time, and Highway is of course 0 percent. So I guess if the combined rating has 55% city and 45% highway...approx. 10% idle time would be a combined trip. Good info.
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