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Originally Posted by Stubby79
Your target speed was 83mph in a 70 zone? Was that just to keep up with traffic?  |
I was doing a 900 mile trip. Including stops and time stuck at the Canada//USA border it took 14½ hours. That works out to an absolute average of 62 mph. Stops took about an hour and a half total, so that means my on-road average was about 69mph. Getting those averages up greatly reduces the total time spent on the road.
I obviously drive according to conditions -- weather, traffic, construction. But for this trip about two-thirds are either in rural farm areas or in the Appalachian Mountains. I also timed my departure time to avoid rush hour in the major cities on my route.
My target speed in Ontario is the speed limit +19km/h and my target speed in the USA is the speed limit +14mph. This only works out because of the states I pass through. If I was going to Indiana or Virginia or something I'd only go the limit +4mph because those states (and others) have much more aggressive speed limit laws.
At every stage of the journey except the very end (2am and after because there was almost no traffic) there were some cars passing me. I was probably faster than 90% of the cars on the road, except early on when the aero drag was really slowing me down and I had no idea what was going on.
This isn't hypermiling driving, but it's still saving money because if I do the whole thing fast enough (under 17 hours) I don't get so fatigued that I need to stop at a hotel. Beyond 17 hours I would probably have to give up, I just don't think the human body is meant for that kind of endurance, and I'm an athletic person. This exact trip took me 17 hours 1 time, I hope that it never takes that long again. I've done this drive solo about 14 (not sure) times, 5 times this year alone.