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nice title, huh.

i have been diligent since my fill up and other driving techniques until tonight on the way home from work. until today i would coast whenever possible, keep it under 60mph, not accelerate too crazy, care about every extra effort the car has to make from point a to point b.

well, today, i felt i needed to call my sister. i had a great conversation. we talked about music, the family, her upcoming trip, her life. before i knew it, i was almost home. i did not coast in neutral once, i did not look at my speedo once. if everyone else accelerated fast, i did too. i drove home like normal...normal commuters...i feel so dirty(cut to huddled shower scene"can't get clean, can't get clean!"

i am a conscientious driver and do have the ability to talk and drive. i just can not hypermile and drive. i am very disappointed in myself. i may hang the phone up moreso now. i do not want to be a bluetooth zombie. like some sell phone borg connected to the cellular hive. i know resistance is futile, but i will fight it. i was not one with the car today. for that i have shame.

so, moral of the story? do one thing and do it well...drive, get better mpg, hypermile.

Absolutely right! I lose mileage if I even turn on the radio!

I still hypermile while on the cellphone, but admittedly it takes away from not only my mileage, but the experience. Fully concentrating on driving can be very therapeutic, especially if you're out on country roads just cruising along. :)

I seldom drive as well when someone is in the car....last week at the gym, a woman on her phone walked into the men's locker. :eek:

I hangup when people call me from their cell phone while driving.

I do not want to be on the phone with someone when they crash, imagine the life long guilt after being on the phone with someone when a worst case scenario accident happens.

I hangup when people call me from their cell phone while driving.

I do not want to be on the phone with someone when they crash, imagine the life long guilt after being on the phone with someone when a worst case scenario accident happens.

Imagine the stupid lawsuit someone might bring against you for "distracting" the driver who called you.

I've taken to almost always shutting off the cell when I'm driving. And not listening to the fancy sound system I thought I had to have.

But I DO have one instance where talking on the cell actually INCREASED FE. This morning I was tootling along I-95 at my usual 50mph in the right lane when a female in a Lincoln Navigator cruised up behind me. She was clearly yakking on her cell, but she settled in a nice safe distance behind me, protecting my 6 o'clock, for at least 10 miles. When she finished with her call, she accelerated around me and off into the distance. So I figure that while she was on her cell she actually got better MPG than when she was not. Anybody got any idea how much higher mpg she got at 50 than at 70 in that barge?

Probably a 15%-20% gain, unless she was on and off the throttle. Not bad, eh? :)

She seemed fairly smooth. So she was probably saving more gas than I was!