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My dad just sent me an e-mail including a scan of an article he read in his AAA magazine. It is basically all the same stuff regurgitated. But, I will put it up here anyways. You may not be able to read it due to it being a scanned image.

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/500/medium/Hyper-Miling_from_AAA_Mag.jpg

Document the hypermiling mayhem!

Isn't it a miracle none of us hypermilers have been in a serious accident that we are even passively to blame? ;)

It's just a reprint of the hysteria. As I commented in other threads, my own assessment of local collisions are attributable to drunk driving, inattention, excessive speed for conditions, inexperience, and plain old aggressive driving. That last one is the primary factor in most high speed collisions on the expressways.

Since hypermiling is the polar opposite of each of the above, I personally choose to engage in the "dangerous" and "illegal" practices that will save fuel and probably save my life and the life of my car.

How curious that there is no balance to the old wornout article. They could perhaps say that 99.997% of all collisions are caused by the five factors I described above. But instead, the choose to bash hypermiling because almost their entire membership is guilty of The Big Five, and so they can't preach damnation to their own congregation.

Since their tact is so remicent of Joseph Gobbels, could some good reporters just point that out and BTW ask for documentation of a rash of hypermiling caused accidents?

Remember the wrongly accused Richard Jewell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell)? His life was messed up even after he was exhonerated as the bomber in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. :(

Since their tact is so remicent of Joseph Gobbels, could some good reporters just point that out and BTW ask for documentation of a rash of hypermiling caused accidents?

Remember the wrongly accused Richard Jewell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell)? His life was messed up even after he was exhonerated as the bomber in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. :(

Reporters need to take a sensational press release and add even more hysteria to it. To prove it wrong means you have nothing printable, as people don't read or watch for mere informative value. They want big headlines and typical expose' tabloid nonsense. And since a large majority of the viewing public is guilty of speeding/tailgating/aggressive driving, they don't want to hear about their risks any more than a drunk wants to know about long term liver damage. Hysteria over hypermiling, if anything, exonerates them in their own minds, as they can drive past a crash scene (rubbernecking and crashing into each other in the process), justifying their own selfish and reckless behavior by concluding that the collision was caused by yet another dangerous hypermiler.

I did e-mail my dad back about that this is mostly misinformation and linked him to the Beating the EPA article. Hopefully, he will come to understand. He is also concerned about my FASing causing damage to the car.

The AAA makes baby Jesus cry.