Yes if the coloring is different than the blue on top of the truck your car will face that 6 m/s slower air and use less fuel. Now It would be also cool to know for how long/ far behind that green 6m/s slower air will go. I have estimated the effect with that 3 second distance to 1-6% savings. If you drive 5m/s slower 18 km/h or 11.1 mph slower 55 MPH -->50MPH your fuel consumtion is about 13% less according aero rolling resistance calculator.
From myhtbusters test they found out the following results in their tests: Wer can now put those distances to that simulation and get following colors
100 ft=30m=11% greenlight and green dark so about 17.5 m/s air speed--> 7.5 m/s saved 11%-->1,46%/(m/s)
50ft=15m=20% yellow air mostly 13.4 m/s
20ft=6m=27% orange air mostly 7,8 m/s
10ft=3m=39% red colored air mostly so 5m/s
If you calculate the difference mean that 6 m/s would mean about 8,8% fuel saved at that distance. For better perpective you need also the upper picture because the truck is narrower and the green is not so long in width section.
Last edited by Vekke; 01-18-2012 at 06:06 PM..
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