Hi.
Someone who risks life, limb, and quite a few other people's lives just to squeeze the most mileage possible out of their car, typically spending stupid amounts of money on modifications to their cars that are supposed to increase their economy.
^Well said, and spot on.
Wrong on all accounts.
On a side note I realized the reason I enjoy hypermiling is the technology that comes from it and the effect on current/future vehicles
LOL.
As soon as You also realize that people were trying to increase the miles/gallon -or decrease the L/100Km over here- roughly a hundred years before medium-miling, super-miling and the latest fad, hyper-miling was even invented, you may see another perspective.
I was trying to avoid pulling the "age-card", but I was learning and
practising SAFE ways for economical driving well before You were born. And the first people who would be considered "hypermilers" today, had been pushing daisies for decades before I was born. Some were probably just as clueless as some of the hypermilers today though, and were killed in some needless traffic accidents
they caused.
I'm not going through this again.
Now that's no surprise, as it wasn't a discussion You were after with this thread, it was arguing about something you obviously have a lot to learn about.
There's tons of accurate information on the subject of increasing efficiency on vehicles, on both mechanical and aerodynamical POW, datin' way back before it became a mainstream hobby of the environmentalists.
While I find Your arguing about the passion You have for hypermiling entertaining and fun to read, I do urge You to educate yourself just a tad further.
Regards
Sam
