Another aspect to hypermiling is braking less while you are driving. Every time you step on your brakes you are decreasing your gas mileage (you are stopping or slowing your forward momentum that your car has already obtained.) Although some hypermilers can go to what I consider dangerous extremes with this there are many common sense and safe driving practices to do this. Here are a few ideas.
1) Maintain a safe following distance. Tailgating causes you to step on the brake more frequently.
2) Anticipate stops and cost up to stops. (i.e taking foot off accelerator when exiting ramps from interstate)
3) Drive the speed limit. Most towns and cities have stop lights timed so that person going speed limit can hit most lights on green vs. red.
4) Avoid congested roadways if possible.
Try putting some of these tips in practice and see if it makes a difference on your gas mileage.
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