BG Cops: Radar/Speeding ticket help needed!

[SephYuyX]

I use to speed / be aggressive, filled up my Toyota every five days. Now I go five over the speed limit (cops dont give a shit about five over) on cruise control and fill up every nine days.
Feels good man.

[Melena]

Yea....state and locals do not get along here.

Park rangers don't either as we found out many many years ago when we left our campsite for 15 minutes and didn't secure our coolers. Both my dad and uncle were cops and they wound up getting cited.

[RKenshin]

I use to speed / be aggressive, filled up my Toyota every five days. Now I go five over the speed limit (cops dont give a shit about five over) on cruise control and fill up every nine days.
Feels good man.

Unless you're talking excessive, constant speeding (85+ mph on a regular, consistent basis) your MPG isn't affected much at all by it, short of being in an ancient car. 'Optimal' MPG for most cars is usually around 60-75, but the difference between going slightly faster/slower in itself doesn't have that much of an affect on MPG. The biggest factor is break pedal usage in wasting tons of the car's kinetic energy, and people who speed tend to waste far more of it.

Though, yeah... aggressive driving certainly tends to use bursts of gas/breaks, so that was likely the main cause for you.

But speed alone doesn't do much. I'm averaging higher MPG in my Scion than it's rated for and I'm 10-20+ MPH over the speed limit literally like 95% of the time. I should be getting 23 city and 31 highway with an average somewhere in between, but I've never dropped below a range of 32-34 MPG over the past 6 months (I'm still a giant dork that keeps excel sheets on this shit).

If you want to maximize MPG, just try not to waste the kinetic energy of your car. Nothing is worse than the people that feel they either have to have their foot on the gas or the break at all times (both for MPG and driving! so annoying). Bonus: break pads will last much longer too!

Also, if you have a standard you actually will get better MPG without using cruise control and both doing the above + shifting into neutral when you're rolling for longer periods (down a hill, traffic slowing, coming up to a stop, whatever). Those two changes gave me an extra ~20% MPG.

[shaddix]

It is illegal in Alabama to have car in neutral going down a hill. I do it always anyway though.

[RKenshin]

It is illegal in Alabama to have car in neutral going down a hill. I do it always anyway though.

Seriously? lol... I've never even heard of anything like that.

I can't even understand why it would be illegal? Much less how you would catch someone doing it.

[shaddix]

How do you maximize gas mileage through a bunch of lights? Does driving 65 instead of 55 have any effect on how often you have to stop for a red light?

[Aksannyi]

It is illegal in Alabama to have car in neutral going down a hill. I do it always anyway though.

Okay forgive me if this is a dumb question but how on earth would they even know if you were in neutral?

[shaddix]

People probably say so when they get stopped

[Gadritan]

Yep. Top notch edumacashuns thar in Bama' I tell ya.

[aurik]

Unless you're talking excessive, constant speeding (85+ mph on a regular, consistent basis) your MPG isn't affected much at all by it, short of being in an ancient car. 'Optimal' MPG for most cars is usually around 60-75, but the difference between going slightly faster/slower in itself doesn't have that much of an affect on MPG. The biggest factor is break pedal usage in wasting tons of the car's kinetic energy, and people who speed tend to waste far more of it.

Though, yeah... aggressive driving certainly tends to use bursts of gas/breaks, so that was likely the main cause for you.

But speed alone doesn't do much. I'm averaging higher MPG in my Scion than it's rated for and I'm 10-20+ MPH over the speed limit literally like 95% of the time. I should be getting 23 city and 31 highway with an average somewhere in between, but I've never dropped below a range of 32-34 MPG over the past 6 months (I'm still a giant dork that keeps excel sheets on this shit).

If you want to maximize MPG, just try not to waste the kinetic energy of your car. Nothing is worse than the people that feel they either have to have their foot on the gas or the break at all times (both for MPG and driving! so annoying). Bonus: break pads will last much longer too!

Also, if you have a standard you actually will get better MPG without using cruise control and both doing the above + shifting into neutral when you're rolling for longer periods (down a hill, traffic slowing, coming up to a stop, whatever). Those two changes gave me an extra ~20% MPG.

Optimal speed is almost without exception the lowest speed that the car runs comfortably in the highest gear.

And driving in neutral can be dangerous if there is traffic, in case you need to suddenly accelerate to avoid a collision.

[archibaldcrane]

Optimal speed is almost without exception the lowest speed that the car runs comfortably in the highest gear.

This.


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[Gadritan]

And driving in neutral can be dangerous if there is traffic, in case you need to suddenly accelerate to avoid a collision.

Moot point.

It'd be completely impossible to drive a manual without breaking the law. That, and there is no law against it. The latter being the most important detail.

[shaddix]

You realize that takes time right?