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Old 06-11-2008, 12:03 PM   #84 (permalink)
ikaruga
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Question RE: (mostly) useless tips

You guys missed the point. If you live in or near a major city, the majority of these tips are useless. For example, I live on Long Island, a suburb of NY, and I can't pulse-and-glide even if I wanted to -- there's just too much traffic. I can't draft for the same reason. All I can really do (other than the obvious tips) are accelerate slowly and turn my engine off at long stop lights.

By the way, pulse-and-glide seems to be illegal and dangerous -- you're asking people to either (a) go past the speed limit and then coast down, or (b) go to the speed limit and then go under what everyone else is going -- that's asking for trouble on the highway. (And that doesn't even mention turning off the engine.)

Sorry, I don't have any tips, I'm just being a realist
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