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I was on 95 North and there was a red 2nd gen Prius in the right lane going 45, ridge riding, with his blinkers on. I was excited because in the two years i've been reading up on and attempting hypermiling, i've never seen another hypermiler. He could have had a flat though lol. I dont know

I passed him because I was in the company van, a 2005 Chevy Uplander LS. I managed to get 29 MPG... is that good?

Keep your eyes open. I almost every day end up with folks following me at some point for 10 miles or so. Most I think fall behind me so they can chat on there cell phones or play with there wifes chesticals and such after a hard days work. <<<< I know I've done that. :) But know matter what and or for what ever reason they were and are getting better mpg following me.

I must admit folks are a bit of a kinder lot than most in the USA once your out of OKC or Tulsa. And even in those city's there still a much better lot than most behind the wheel.

I myself will never drive again in the Boston area unless I have a machine gun and treat the drive like a old space invaders game. I was ashamed that it was a area of the birth of our great,,, or use to be great nation.

I ply the great northern I-93 river north of Boston all the time,
and very occasionally see someone tooling along in the right
lane at 50ish or so and not seeming to want to go any faster.
I'll drop in behind the ones that aren't obviously DWI [i.e.
going more like 35 and weaving] and do their rear-guard for a
while, and maybe eventually pull out and pass when there's plenty
of room or even just stay in there for as long as they stay on.
Bostonites tend to be a little crazy sometimes but I really think
the occasional directed malice around here doesn't hold a candle
to the outright idiot knuckle-dragger bullying around some of our
other fine upstanding U.S. cities. It often sounds like the
handy sidearm would be more needed around Atlanta, DFW, maybe
LA ... but really, it's a universal national problem and I
really think it should be treated as such.
.
If the fed put as much resource into tailgating enforcement as
they did into this "coupons for digital TV converter" crap, we
would have this problem SOLVED right now. I can't believe the
taxpayer-funded overhead expended for such a trivial thing.
.
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The nice thing about my available routes is the road that leads to my neighborhood runs parallel to I64 for 7.5 miles with one traffic light. Heading east, you have 64 on the left and the railroad tracks on the right. Very few places where traffic will enter or exit the road. It's 4.5 miles to the single light then 3 more miles to the second light.

I have seen a number of cars driving the same speed on this road as myself, in the 45-50 range, even though the speed limit is 55 and most do 60+.

This is especially true in the Insight.

I64 (2 lanes each way) on the other hand is another world, with mass tailgating in groups, less than 1 second apart. If you leave stopping distance between you and the car in front of you, the Morons think you are a doormat and use the space to pass on the right and cut in front of the left lane car, sometimes with only a few feet of clearance. I have seen evey type of vehicle do this, from Smart Cars to Tractor trailers.

Local routes less travelled are my primary pathways these days.

regards
gary