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Originally Posted by bshgto
Time Saved By Speeding
Ever wonder exactly how much time is saved by speeding to your destination?
I did a little figuring and the results may surprise you.
Chart #1
Miles MPH Time (in hrs) Time (in mins & secs)
10 55 .181818 10:55
10 65 .153846 9:14
10 70 .142857 8:34
10 75 .133333 8:00
Chart #2
Time saved every 10 miles by going:
65 instead of 55 .027972 1:41
75 instead of 65 .020513 1:14
75 instead of 55 .048485 2:55
Using Chart #1 we get the time savings for Chart #2
So is it worth the cost of the ticket and drastically increasing your chances of crashing just to go 75mph instead of 65mph and save 1:14 every 10 miles? Seems sort of futile doesn't it?
So this pretty much shows your wasting fuel but saving time anything over 65 you really start burning fuel. My 350 mile limit a day says I would save 23.3 minutes a day by driving 70 over 65. You stop 2 times to let the wife go at a rest stop in that mileage you`ve lost more than you would have saved.
The ones that have to barrel on thru in the left lane and have to deal with in and out of lanes really are a danger to us all and it`s impossible to maintain any kind of constant speed the left lane anyway with the cowboy truck drivers and the tailgaters. So the calculations will be less. So not worth it.
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I like your math but for me you don’t take it far enough. I’m sure that will work good for you and it does when I go with my wife. But when I go to Wyoming with the two guys who work in the shop it doesn’t work well. We will be on the road from before 8 am and stop after 11 that night. If we can travel 75 for 10 of those hours that is a hundred miles. We will leave here in western Virginia at 12 or 1 pm and be in Wyoming in under 48 hours. You would take 5 days at 350 miles a day. That is 6 extra days for the trip. You can buy a lot of fuel for that.
Lynwood