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Well being in a lighter vehicle helps you too if you cannot reclaim all your climbing energy on the back side (you lost less energy during ascension). Stops at the bottom of hills just suck, best you can do is to (when traffic allows) shut it down early so you barely coast over the top, then coast it down. But as long as you are with legal speed range (and especially if there is ample passing room) I don't worry too much about what other drivers are doing, their reasons for wanting to race down a hill to a stop are no better than my reasons for driving as I do. So you can legally roll over the top of the hill at like 25mph, so you don't have to ride the brakes so much on the way down. <insert noise about bla bla legal bla bla outtamyway bla bla here>