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dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
04/28/09

In reply to Survey: Sat-Nav Systems Make Drivers 12% More Fuel Efficient
So if one GPS will save 12% on gas, would the car in the picture save 48%?
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engineerd
04/28/09

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I'm going to do my own study. I figure if Obama is giving out trillions of dollars, I might as well get a piece of that. My study is going to be titled, "Advancing Driver Training for the 21st Century: Best Practices in Driver Training and Their Applications in the United States of America".

Basically, the conclusion will be that driver training is woefully inadequate in this country, and we can learn from pilot training and driver training elsewhere.

I'm looking for volunteers. I will have a control group, BMW drivers, and old people.
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pauljones
04/28/09

@engineerd: Will you buy me a new BMW so I can participate?
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engineerd
04/28/09

@pauljones: I'll throw that in with my funding request. I mean, when you're already spending $13 trillion, what's another $60,000? I'm assuming you want an M3?
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pauljones
04/28/09

@engineerd: In sedan form, no less.

Gotta have a backseat to umm...confer with the Adriana Lima, whom you will be hiring as my co-driver.
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FЯeeMan
04/28/09

@pauljones: I'll join up too! I need an M5, though, cause I have 3 kids to tote, and one of them will be driving soon. He needs something safe to learn in!
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FTGDWolverineEdition'09
04/28/09

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It definitely helped me save a bunch of fuel when I go there for long work trips. U.K has to have the worst road sign system! The motorways are for the most part O.K but the city and local road signs are crap! If they exist at all! Add all this to the narrow congested roads and driving on the wrong side, I pretty much got a heart attack the first few times I went there. And brought a Tom Tom by the end of the third day.

You guys won't believe how many times I used to go around the round abouts looking for stuff.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
04/28/09

@Formerlythegreatestdriver: The UK only has the worst road sign system if you don't know the names of every town and road within 30 miles, ignoring all cardinal direction. That's a pre-requisite to driving there.

American directions, because we're all retarded: Take I-70 West, get off at exit 271 (Overland Park). If you miss it, just take the next exit a couple miles down the road.

British directions, because we're all locals: Take the A2174 towards Bollockshire and then Wankton, then left on B108 at the Stuffit Inn pub towards Screwmicester, then right on the seventh unmarked lane and straight on 500 yards and left at the dungheap.
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04/28/09

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It makes sense. I'v noticed that when Sulu takes the time to actually plot a course to Talos IV, we get there a lot quicker than when he just goes whatever way he feels like.
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Mobius
04/28/09

@Tiberiuswise gazing at the Pontiac Moon.: Captain?
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pauljones
04/28/09

@Tiberiuswise gazing at the Pontiac Moon.: Sulu announced long ago that he only went one way....
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Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
04/28/09

@pauljones: Nowhere near the inventory of Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
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pauljones
04/28/09

@Tiberiuswise gazing at the Pontiac Moon.:

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lilwillie
04/28/09

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//TomTom thread jack

So I went to Sturgeon Bay this past weekend.....Door County, the Hamptons of Wisconsin.

I borrowed a friends TomTom for the trip just because when I am on vacation I want to know where the places to eat, drink and be merry are.

I have to say I liked it. All the local bars and restaurants listed. It had enough features installed I never had a issue with trying to get anywhere.

Oh, it had a bunch of wrong roads, thought I was off-roading and driving into the actual Bay of Sturgeon Bay but common sense and a actual paper map also helped. That and asking locals where the best place to eat drink and be merry made it a great road trip.

Used alone, those things will get you in trouble, supplement it with a road map and talking to locals and it is very helpful.

And editors,post those pics I sent you of that pair of bad ass GM diesels. Those engines where freaking awesome.
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SeanKHotay
04/28/09

@lilwillie wants another PCH: Same with mine; it'll take you down dirt roads and/or single tracks if you let it.

Did the cost study include wear and tear on the vehicle?
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A strolling player
04/28/09

@lilwillie wants another PCH: Yeah, turns out if you're not a total ass, a GPS is a fine tool. I love my damned TomTom.
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JSmith53
04/28/09

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This study was funded by a GPS manufacturer? No shit.
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Mobius
04/28/09

@JSmith53: Lies, damn lies, statistics, manufacturer-funded GPS MPG studies, cake.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
04/28/09

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So if you combine this with a "trip mpg" computer, I'm willing to bet drivers will increase by at least 30% in crashiness.
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Mobius
04/28/09

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Yeah. Satnav = 0 miles / 0 gallons = ∞ mpg?

It also happens to equal "stuck" and "internet stardom", y'know.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
04/28/09

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I believe that pic above is the M5 that broke the coast-to-coast record in 2007. So I'll give those guys a pass on coolness, despite all the GPS (and some of those are PC-interface, telemetrics, etc)
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
04/28/09

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Terrific. They're also 5,000 times more likely to drive onto railroad tracks, into a building, or off a cliff. But nothing restores your manhood more fully than never having to stop and ask for directions, and you can always tell your passenger that, yes, you do know exactly where you are and this was precisely what you were intending to do - as you call for the helivac from the sand bar in the middle of the river.
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