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I got another one for you...
About a year or two ago I took a 1,300 mile trip and since I have a perfect driving record I always set the cruise control to do the speed limit. Lo and behold, doing 65 constant I must've been in the 1% of slowest cars on the road, these fools were passing me 70, 75, I think I am sure 80 and 90 it was ridiculous the entire way this load of crap!
Now some folks can disagree all they want talk about I'm holding up traffic but my attitude is the speed LIMIT is the absolute fastest we're allowed to drive, technically speaking we should be slightly below even.
Either way, I learned a new technique in this process, I call it working my way backwards through traffic. Takes a lot of studying the rear and not more than moderate traffic, also it works best to do it only for tractor trailers and such and let the rest of the cars fend it out on their own... But basically what I would do is change lanes when something was coming up directly behind me and if the other lane was clear, again more so with tractor trailers than anything else.
And believe it or not as the 18 wheelers would pass, now I don't believe in tailgating so they were just passing aside me, even then I could feel myself benefit from the passing wind, yes, I could FEEL it.
It was great, a true masterpiece of driving, the cruise control stayed engaged most of the time and the police was heavy that day and more than a few got pulled over as I just MYOB as they say.
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