For you Hypermilers and other MPG h4xx0rz

[ellenbetty]

Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

Do you guys just put up with the impatient a-holes honking and screaming at you when starting off at red lights and stop signs? I generally find myself letting the car get up to 2500 RPM or so when starting because the person behind me looks like they are going to have an aneurysm. Do the rest of you have to put up with that crap? Maybe the drivers in my area are just a-holes. I know the vast majority of people here have no idea how to drive.

While I do hypermile using a ecometer, I am concerned about being shot or rear ended by someone speeding. I have been honked at a few times. I have been rear ended once with major damage to my car. I have learned to look behind me and slow down slower when there is traffic trapped behind me. I take into consideration how much space there is between me and the vehicles in front of me. If I reach the next red light just as it is turning green, and there is at lease one vehicle in front of me, I figure I am not holding up traffic and therefor less likely to be shot by some nut case.

Traffic lights are timed to give the best traffic flow for people who drive the speed limit. Those people who drive faster than the speed limit, hit more red lights.

For those who think that hypermilers should stop driving and ride a bicycle, I say, go post on the boost forum. I was rear ended while bicycling. The USAF doctor who treated me told me to never bicycle again. The USAF doctor said, with the damage already done to my body, I would not survive another bicycle automobile accident. I have been receaving disability checks ever since that accident. People disabled by speeding weaving drivers are part of the reason that taxes and insurance is so high.