your driving record since hypermiling

[SentraSE-R]

I belonged to a group of about a dozen friends, and many of them commented on my apparently reckless driving. Twenty-three years later, all of them have received moving violation tickets, while I haven't. The law of averages says if you're a sloppy driver, you will be ticketed, and if you're a law-abiding driver, you won't. I took corners fast, but I look ahead and don't speed. They were all just sloppy, and inattentive drivers.

[tasdrouille]

I only got one ticket in my life. It was for speeding, two weeks after I first got my license, slashing all my points but one with two years to go before I could get my points back. Then I started hypermiling. It was 14 years ago and I never got an other ticket or warning ever since.

[MetroMPG]

Tas: I have almost exactly the same story. One speeding ticket, within a couple of months of starting to drive. Since then, nada.

Had a fine for a missing front plate, but that's not driving related... and it wasn't even for aero reasons! I just lost it somehow.

[Christ]

Oh, jeez. If I whipped out my driver's table, you'd all be swimming in paper. It can't be eco-friendly, that's for sure.

Frankly, I don't equate tickets to driving ability in many cases. I've gotten alot of tickets that were BS, and I've gotten out of most of them because I can talk nicely and know what to say in most cases. That doesn't mean I was ever a better driver than anyone else, it just means I was smart enough to get out of the tickets, while some other jerk wasn't.

On top of that, though, I did manage a street racing/wreckless driving ticket that had me on the bus for the better part of a year (once I started working in a city, where I wasn't comfortable driving illegally), so I decided I had better slow it down a bit. I still take curves "too fast", allow myself to go over the PSL for stints, and where applicable, just plain speed. (Unposted roads around here are 35-40MPH. I do whatever I feel comfortable at.)

I still occasionally swing rear ends 'round, accelerate like an idiot, and participate in "contests of speed". The only difference is that, now, I don't get caught.

I'm far from being even a "good" hypermiler. I just don't have too many opportunities to really apply the knowledge. On the other hand, I've always known how to drive somewhat efficiently when I wanted to, so that's nothing new for me.

[ATaylorRacing]

I USED to always be 1 pt from loosing my driving priviledges after coming back from 5 years on living/driving in Germany back in Dec 78. About 10 years ago I sold my radar detector at a garage sale and have never gotten a ticket since! It was giving me a BIG false sense of security since it would not pick up VASCAR, a computerized visual device, if they can see you they can clock you. Since then I slowed to only 9 mph over the speed limit with good luck. I started hypermiling in 2001 and slowed down a bit more. My Geo 1.0 3 banger does not get me in trouble, but I REALLY have to watch my loud pedal in my 12 second SRT4...nothing like smoking your tires in 2nd gear at 50 mph next to some punk in a large tired, hood scouped, loud Mustang!