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Originally Posted by gschoen
Well, the roads ARE shared and driving outside of conditions can be as rude and hazardous as the maniac drivers. When there's no one around it's not a big deal, but in traffic it's hard to predict what a driver going 10MPH under the limit is doing (are they lost? looking for an address? something in their eye? drunk and driving slow to compensate?) and someone coasting to the stoplight can prevent others behind them from making their turn, getting the green arrow - it can even hurt THEIR mileage. Other drivers have no way of knowing how a hypermiler drives, and that makes you unpredictable to them. Even if they did, they'd have no way of knowing YOU are one of them! If you were driving 38 in a 45, I'd pass you as well. It's safer to have distance from the maniac and unpredictable drivers both.
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Well, to each their own, but I have matured to the point that I realize the speed limit is "the upper limit" and not the "required speed." (except on roads where a minimum speed limit is posted.) The other drivers are not paying my fuel bills, so I have every right to drive a "reasonable speed below the limit" under
any circumstances.
Like I said in my last post, I do my best to never inhibit other drivers, but when a hypermiler like me meets a speed demon zooming up behind them, something has to give - and if there is another lane for the speed demon to change into to get around me, I'm not adjusting my speed for him - I do change lanes when I can if I notice they are coming up fast behind me, which I consider a
VERY NICE THING to do for them.
I consider myself somewhat of a crusader for slower speeds, because it's just idiotic the way drivers (at least in Phoenix AZ) just
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM from red light to red light like they are going to a fire. It's asinine and foolish, and if I slow someone down a little bit for a short distance, well, that's the breaks. They might not know it, but I just saved them a little gas money for the half a block they got stuck behind me !!!