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I have been essentially doing exactly what you're suggesting there, for the last few days. I have been limiting the amount of acceleration I can give myself at any one point and that is that, unless I feel that I'm impeding traffic on a small 2 lane road, I will not accelerate with more power then can be given to me at 2k RPM. So far it has worked pretty well, I do tend to slow down on hills a bit more now, but I try to use momentum to from previous hills and such, to get me up the hill in a reasonable manner. I did go on the highway for the first time today in a while and I tested people's reactions to different variations in speed. On this particular freeway the limit is 65mph, I stayed in the right lane and cruised at 55mph, I had a lot of complaints from the people behind so I bumped it to the absolute limit I was willing to deal with which was 62mph (roughly 80kph for those playing in the rest of the world) which you may know as the optimal speed for a car to drive at for peak efficiency. This yielded much more positive results as I was under the posted limit, but no one seemed to mind since I was in the right lane. Most people were zipping by me at 80+mph, but I just sat in the right lane shaking my head thinking of how much those reach oil empires in the middle east must love them.
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