Re: suggestion to pass on to: Rich Denner (traffic engineer)
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:38 pm
They aren't rubbernecking; they're just hypermiling
The other night on I was an interstate with a 70 MPH limit (traffic going 75), and sure enough there was a Prius going below 55 clogging up traffic in one of the two otherwise wide open lanes. I wonder how much gas everybody else expended trying to go around him?

The other night on I was an interstate with a 70 MPH limit (traffic going 75), and sure enough there was a Prius going below 55 clogging up traffic in one of the two otherwise wide open lanes. I wonder how much gas everybody else expended trying to go around him?