[dem45133]

Wow!

I sure hope that never becomes normal! How many ways can one increase their risk and piss off every one and make it worse?

My commute; 18 miles 2 lane 55 mph mostly, but not 3000 feet of non curves or hills in the entire 18 miles and several 30 and 25 mph curves at the bottom of hills.... its bad enough that there is only 2 very short places to pass... so when you get behind grand pa doing 30... your maybe stuck there for 5 miles... and if some one is oncoming in one of the 2 passing stretches it might be 10 miles or 18 if oncoming at the second stretch... but the 75 - 80 mph idiots will pass not only grandpa even on non-passing maximum sight distance hills and curves that are marked no passing for a reason (but now they are punched hard and likely at 90 before yanking back... they are just plain crazy and kill several every year in head-ons or loss of control trying to avoid one and get back in their lane, or worse someone else loosing it trying to avoid them...)... they'll pass me or my wife while were doing 60 or 62. Now they are going to come behind you in your glide and really get really pissed when they can't pass , you cycle through your acceleration, and glide down again. Likely a good way to get shot around here. And you wonder why I like weighing 7000 lbs!!! Hell I don't need at 1 ton.. I need Abram's tank to be safe around here! Ohio does NOT know how to build a road... even a US highway. Partly because they are almost all old narrow right-of-ways and no shoulders to speak of.

Ok the next portion... 24 miles of good open marginal trafficked 4 lane. While it would be much safer to do it here vs my 2 lane... you'll constantly be passing someone at the peak of you acceleration, and then they'd be passing you during the glide. Its a 70 mph average for everyone...including big trucks... regardless what the speed sign says (unless your directly behind a trooper) After a few dozen time of this they're going to be giving you the finger or worse. What if you at the bottom of your glide directly in front of a semi, who doing 40 mph faster but cant move over because of another vehicle next to him. Could you see the chaos if they all were trying to do this... ???

Except maybe out west in the open plain 2 lanes... I do not see this as a viable option... Even the western main line E/W interstates, like 10,20,40,70,80,90 and 94 and and some of their NS counterparts like 35 would have too much traffic to do this even remotely safely.

I read through those hypermileing tips... a lot of add to safety issues in many ways.... geez. I've driven way to many miles and have seen way too many things to even think of some of them. One never minimizes the the safety margins... you ALWAYS maximize them. I know that some of (very well a good percent of the serious ones) will be rude and/or reduce their safety margin for sake of "I'm not breaking my average now... I'm so close to a record" which then will take precedence... I'll guarantee it!.