[ale] [WAY THE HELL OFF TOPIC] -- but accurate

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 21:29:48 EDT 2014


Remember- those red white and blue signs are suggested speeds!

The spur off I85 is terrifying!
On Aug 14, 2014 8:17 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> This graf is from an article on trying to be a "hypermiler" in a Honda
> Insight -- in Atlanta:
>
> "The speed thing was especially a problem for us, because we conducted
> this test in Atlanta, where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour – a
> number we decided to stay close to for efficiency purposes. Unfortunately,
> no one in Atlanta goes 55 miles per hour. Little old ladies don't go 55.
> Church vans don't go 55. Even an illegal immigrant driving a stolen car
> with a trunk full of cocaine and human body parts would be pushing 70.
> And no one would give him a second look."
>
> http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-
> honda-1621059406
>
> Sean
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