Hypermiling...want to save gas?

I've been doing it for years and never even realized. Strange thing is I drive an old 1986 Ranger too.

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSEIC07284920080430?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

Not quite as macho as driving like you do while playing those video games, but a lot easier on the wallet.

 

thats intresting, While I travel to work Im going down hill for some 60 miles basically drifting, if a computer did the work more I could save move on the slight incline here and there instead of excelerating myself..
coming back up hill is where it would need to do more work.

Btw Truckers dont like when you draft them for to long unless your another trucker.. They know what your doing back there and will put the breaks on you.. your creating a drag on a trucker not a good idea in a honda civic.. bye bye rice burner..

 

Drafting behind trucks isn't something I do, but I have a light foot and do keep my tires a bit overinflated.

Was taught by my father to turn the engine off at train crossing when the train is going through, and how to listen to the engine and especially not ask more from an old lady like mine than she can easily return. My truck's got over 200,000 miles and just passed smog last Saturday. So I consider myself lucky. Do need new tires though. But they're over ten years old.

 

hydroplaning here and there woulnt hurt none.lol..

 

Coasting down hills helps too.

Maybe someone should come up with a new virtual driving game that rewards the driver for saving fuel?