Astonished weren't you to notice how thoughtlessly and/or belligerently people drive? I still reel when I realize that hurtle-&-brake and jack-rabbit starting, & the full-monty of aggressive driving saves you, if at all, 75 seconds per ½ hour of nutville rage-ridden more dangerous driving.
Let's get into some weeds here. The devil and the eco-driver (the smart hypermiler) is in the details. I am not an Xtreme Hypermiler. I don't draft off semis. Wayne Gerdis, the perhaps mad Ty Cobb of Xtreme Hypermilers drafts off the Big Trucks. Any momentum he has 'bought' with irreplaceable, precious dead-dinosaur fuel, he will fight to use rather than waste. Thus he takes freeway offramps at an horrific speed so as not to lose the gained-momentum from the straightaway. (I do the opposite because I'm so respectful of the car's underpinings.)   more »