[MetroMPG]

From today's Ottawa Citizen:

Someone's not happy...

These are geeks who plot out their routes to work and home each day to avoid as many traffic lights and stop signs as possible.
Some with non-hybrid vehicles will turn off their engines during long downhill coasts to save fuel.

They recommend coasting instead of braking when coming to a traffic light, inflating their car's tires to the maximum permitted by the tire maker -- and thereby ignoring the car makers' specs -- and allowing increased road grades on uphill routes to slow the vehicle rather than accelerating to maintain a constant speed.

Some of them actually tuck in their vehicles behind tractor trailers to use the reduced air resistance technique known as drafting to cut back on fuel usage. I suggest anyone trying this on public highways should be referred to as a corpse.

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And of course when you mix their driving habits in with the majority of drivers who are trying to get from point A to B in the quickest and easiest way possible, you just know that you're going to see ... road rage.

This doesn't simply mean that hypermilers are all wet and the rest of us are right, but mixing these two drastically different driving methods on already crowded roads during the daily commute just won't improve safety. We're extremely fortunate that, right now, hypermiling refers to a comparatively small sector of the driving public. Let's hope it stays that way.

Full rant:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...e-e197546504c7