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Originally Posted by dcb
You are wandering off into speculation land a little there. Around town you wouldn't know the difference between pulse and glide and "normal" driving. My passengers have never complained, they like the quiet parts.
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Not speculation, personal experience. When I was a kid one of the drivers in our carpool would PG on the highway section of the drive to school. Until I started reading about hypermiling techniques I never understood why the heck he drove that way. In retrospect he was probably pulsing up to 65 and then gliding down to 62 or so - his PG cycle was roughly 10 seconds long. I always felt sick as a dog by the time we reached our destination, which was only 15 minutes away, and I am not particularly prone to motion sickness.
You are probably right about it not being an issue around town - between close stop lights there might only be one pulse.