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Originally Posted by freebeard
I literally came from this page to here. We've got a live one.
I think big rigs clearing the intersection expeditiously on Green is a win for everyone. |
As an address to the statement, not any one person:
You aren’t going to like the corollary to that statement
How do you explain it as “a win”? (Other than as impatience).
The impact of acceleration rate on fuel economy is huge. Obvious.
“You” (everyone in a car) drive around in an insanely overpowered vehicle (what’s necessary versus what’s desired). Please load the vehicle to within 10% if the axle ratings. Use a CAT Scale to verify.
Acceleration from a dead stop in an 80,000-lb tanker with an eighteen-speed trans means 13th or 14th gear before the truck is really moving. About 25-mph and up.
Traffic volume, just like commercial traffic, are facts of life. (I’ll keep repeating that).
Is your “best practice” while at the posted Interstate limit to cut in front of the big truck with less than 200’ clearance to make your exit?
“You” do it regularly, don’t you?
Hurry to pass and jam up against other cars in front of the big truck going into a construction zone?
Bumper to bumper with other cars coming down the entrance ramp expecting the big truck with ROW to relinquish that?
Jamming the left lane to prevent a big truck from passing?
And so on.
This is the norm. Today.
What’s it like to be a petulant child when at the wheel?
Traffic volume dictates average mph, as vehicle spacing is the control.
All the vehicle mods and driving stunts for FE are ineffective,
meaningless without that fundamental.
IOW, won’t produce satisfactory results. Why contributors leave this site.
As a society we’re long past the point a car is leverage.
Necessary isnt the same as beneficial.
Moving freight is a fact. A truck driver responding to the flow is fact.
Blaming the truck for what it is is nearly as stupid as drafting one.
Those who disregard spacing as a central tenet sacrifice safety, fuel economy and vehicle longevity. A thorough defeat of the money spent and promised for the leverage of a private automobile. High risk, high cost.
Back to the beginning: if the light is green “you” never slow prior to the major four-way intersection just ahead, do “you”?
Investigation of the relation of average mph to average mpg will defeat the sixteen year old at the wheel.
Slay the inner child.
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