10-23-2009, 11:35 PM
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Intermediate EcoDriver
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Originally Posted by Shaias
You are the bring of crying when the time has arrived to slam on those brakes and would be glad to slam in the back of the track trailer stalled in the middle lane if you could get out of the accident alive knowing that you did not waste those .0003gallons of fuel in braking to avoid the accident!
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Great first post! 
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Just 'cuz you can't do it, don't mean it can't be done...
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Originally Posted by elhigh
The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.
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10-24-2009, 01:21 AM
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60 is my limit
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Thanks for the encouragement, sorry for the grammar (was too involved in the story).
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10-24-2009, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bennelson
....you get passed by Geo Metros on the freeway off-ramp.
(This actually happened to me this morning! Can you imagine the driver in the Metro going "hurry up buddy!" Man, I'm slow...)
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That has actually happened to me haha...
YKYAEM if...(true story *obviously) You take pictures of all the rims/hub caps you think look aerodynamic  
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10-24-2009, 01:28 PM
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YKYAEM if *true story* you go to turn on your cruise control, hit the button for "ON" and then press "SET" you go driving down the road about a mile, try to hit the gas because you seem to be slowing down, nothing happens, and realize you put you car in neutral before you tried putting on the cruise control so that didn't turn on and you realized you have been coasting the WHOLE time (GOOD TIMES)
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*Also true story* You press "ON" on your cruise control then press "SET" and drive down the road about .6 miles and get to a hill and start to slow down... you are like "What the heck?!" and realized that when you pressed the "ON" button, the cruise control was already set to "ON" so you really turned it OFF and have been coasting the whole time...  |
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10-24-2009, 01:31 PM
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YKYAEM if... The first thing you notice when watching this youtube video is the prius in the background...  |
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10-24-2009, 01:34 PM
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TKYAEM if... This makes you smile  |
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10-24-2009, 02:12 PM
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Cycling more to drive les
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YKYAEM when Planet Green is one of ur favorite channels on tv.
YNYAEM if u use to have pretty bad road rage when u drove faster, but now that u drive slower for f/e, u have a lot less stess and road rage had decreased to almost none.
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10-24-2009, 02:32 PM
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YKYAEM if, you have been thinking about getting a windshield sticker that says "My car is broken and will not go over 55mph" so maybe people will stop flashing you and riding your tail on the highway.. haha
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*true story* MY car is doing this weird jerk type of thing between 55-62mph (but it fine under and over those speeds) where it acts like it is going up in rpms then going right back down over and over, you dont know what the problem is but you know you have an excuse for going 53mph on the highway now... *BTW anyone have any idea on what this may be?*
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10-24-2009, 02:36 PM
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Cycling more to drive les
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YNYAEM if u have about a mile till ur exit on the highway and someone passes and goes flying by just to get off the same exit because they can't stand to go ur speed. When u get to the toll booth, they're waiting in line to pay their toll and u go past them in the booth next to them cuz u have fastlane and they don't  . *True story* This has happened more times than i can count.
Last edited by Chalupa102; 10-24-2009 at 11:26 PM..
Reason: spelling
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10-24-2009, 02:43 PM
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YKYAEM if... Gas goes up about 10 cents in the last few days and you wonder if you can hypermile good enough to make you 1/2 tank of gas last long enough that you can wait until the gas goes back down a little (I think I might be able too >.<)
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