Eternal Searcher wrote:

You can do a lot of the hypermile stuff w/o necessarily pissing everyone
else on the road. Just exercise some common courtesy toward your fellow
drivers.

With effort, I suspect anyone could nearly double his/her mileage. The
cost, in terms of mechanical wear and tear, traffic tickets, road rage
generated hospital bills, etc. would be prohibitive. Look at what this
obsessive can do:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/king_of_the_hypermilers.html


IMO, by adopting a few hypermile techniques, and applying them only when
traffic-appropriate, a typical driver can still increase their mileage
significantly.

Most specific fuel consumption charts show best efficiency at low-medium
revs, with 40~80% throttle. This implies giving it a reasonable amount
of gas and shifting a little sooner than usual. It's not hard to do,
and you'll be only a little slower off the line than the idiots that
drag race from stop light to stop light. Couple this with stoplight and
traffic anticipation (stomping on the brakes is death to your mileage)
and you'll instantly gain several MPG in town.

septicman (AT) peoplepc (DOT) com wrote:

Just install one of these setups!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwig1tgUtY

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Greg Campbell wrote:
What we really need to be looking at is how to get really good fuel
economy *without* being a road hazard and endangering the lives of
ourselves and our passengers. I've been doing this for years. It
involves thing like timing lights, coasting (with the engine ON)
accelerating slowly and then doing 55 or 50, and keeping the engine in
the 'eco zone' while climbing hills. I regularly get 41mpg in mixed
driving with my rather heavy '95 Civic EX sedan, and have gotten in the
mid 30s with out '95 Camry sedan - with automatic. I do use my A/C, but
only under low-load conditions like cruising on level ground and
decelerating. Of course, you also have to choose the right car; Civics,
Camrys and Corollas, Metros...