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Originally Posted by Daekar
I have been experimenting with driving lower than the PSL on the homeward leg of my commute because I work second-shift, and am on 65-70mph roads from around 12:10 to 12:40am every weeknight. Since there is minimal traffic, the only thing I have to worry about is being pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving.
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I got some fabulous MPGs when I worked second shift. I also got a lot of P&G practice in. All due, as you said, to the lower volume of traffic on the roads.
I also worried about being pulled over by police, and in fact I was pulled over more than once, during the late night portion of my commute. It didn't matter what *speed* I drove; what mattered far more was what *car* I drove. (Vehicular profiling?!?) It also seemed to me to simply be a matter of changing odds. In the daytime, there are 1,000 or 10,000 'civilian' vehicles to every police cruiser; at night the number seemed to me to be more like to 100 to 1. I saw police cars everywhere, all the time, at night.