<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I recall driving up to my folks home the first time, and getting a little nervous driving 55 in bumper-to-bumper traffic on 285<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Remember- those red white and blue signs are suggested speeds!<br>
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The spur off I85 is terrifying!<br>
<div><div class="h5">On Aug 14, 2014 8:17 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This graf is from an article on trying to be a "hypermiler" in a Honda<br>
> Insight -- in Atlanta:<br>
><br>
> "The speed thing was especially a problem for us, because we conducted<br>
> this test in Atlanta, where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour – a<br>
> number we decided to stay close to for efficiency purposes. Unfortunately,<br>
> no one in Atlanta goes 55 miles per hour. Little old ladies don't go 55.<br>
> Church vans don't go 55. Even an illegal immigrant driving a stolen car<br>
> with a trunk full of cocaine and human body parts would be pushing 70.<br>
> And no one would give him a second look."<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-" target="_blank">http://jalopnik.com/here-s-what-happened-when-i-went-hypermiling-in-a-</a><br>
> honda-1621059406<br>
><br>
> Sean<br>
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