Return to the Double Nickel? AYFKM?!?

[Racerbvd]

55mph will ONLY work if you also drive a 3 cylinder hatchback, with the A/C off, and convert all roads to toll roads.

Therefore, we should institute the above as required for everyone. Tomorrow. It's for the Earth people!!

F the Earth people, I'm going home to my own planet




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[dd74]

Thank goodness for Texas...a real state.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by dd74

Psychologically, 55 mph is a lot slower than 70 or 80. It's as if the world is going by in slow motion, which tends to cause me to become more tired behind the wheel. 70 or 80 is much more exciting. I'm more alert at those speeds. Other drivers have told me this as well.

Now there's a good safety study for someone inclined to debate the benefits of 70 or 80 over 55 mph.

Same thing. In the past on an occasion or two when I was much younger, I've driven when I was way too tired to be driving. I found that driving 80 or so kept me awake, but if my speed dropped, I started to nod off.

I've actually read that the Italians did a study and determined that a higher speed (I don't remember, but I think it was in the 70-90 range) kept people more alert.

[onlycafe]

the good old days in montana.

[artplumber]

Actually, the double nickel is a reasonable option for gas saving. Are you guys oblivious to physics - drag etc?

"Drag increases with speed (v). I hope that this is self-evident. An object that is stationary with respect to the fluid will certainly not experience any drag force. Start moving and a resistive force will arise. Get moving faster and surely the resistive force will be greater. The hard part of this relationship lies in the detailed way speed affects drag. Are the two quantities directly proportional? Does drag increase as the square of speed? The square root of speed? The cube of speed … ? According to our model, it should be the first of these. Drag should be proportional to the square of speed.
R ∝ v2

But for some situations this is not quite correct. As I said before, drag is a complex phenomena. It is cannot always be written with simple mathematical formulas. My first guess would always be that drag is proportional to the square of speed, but I would not be surprised if, over some range of values, it was found to be directly proportional, or proportional to the 3/2 power, or even that drag and speed were related by some polynomial. Welcome to the world of empirical modeling -- where relationships are determined by actual physical experiments rather than an ideology of pure theory. "

Maybe the double nickel isn't that palatable, but if we were all living close to our workplaces, gasoline consumption might be reduced that way too. Hard to legislate that people live within 20 miles of their work, don't you think?

[Por_sha911]

I say we should go to 55 nationwide BUT only after all those Lizard-headed goofballs in congress are restricted to planes that fly 1/3 slower than the jets they currently use. Also, they need to turn in the keys to the the high dollar, poor mileage boats they use for fun and games all weekend.
Why do only the regular folks have to sacrifice? Since we're on this line of thinking, Al Gore needs to move into a 1500 sq ft house that uses 1/10 the energy his current house uses before he has the nerve to tell me to use less energy.

[legion]

Congress works hard and deserves the toys. Besides, they are just a small group of people and don't have much of an impact.

[Pazuzu]

How about this...lower the freeway limits to 55 between towns, and in return, give each household a $5000 voucher towards buying one of 5 new government subsidized uber-efficient cars...Designed to be at 1500 rpm at 55mph governed, 4 seats, A/C, and a $7500 price tag (before voucher). I'd be willing to drive such a contraption on road trips at 55mph to double the savings, as long as I can keep the Porsche for everything else.