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How to improve fuel efficiency - put your foot to the floor
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The Scotsman
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May 18, 2001
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Copyright informationCopyright 2001 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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PUT the foot down if you want to cut your fuel consumption,
according to a new dashboard device that tells you how to drive more
efficiently. It could reduce your fuel costs by a sixth - and you'll
still get from A to B as quickly as before.
Mark Dougherty of the School of Transportation and Society in
Borlnge, Sweden, which supervised the fuel-efficiency project, said
drivers thought they had to drive slowly to be fuel-efficient but
this is not the case. "They think to accelerate gently will get a
better fuel consumption," he said. "That's basically wrong."
This fallacy was the idea behind a host of dashboard devices that
appeared in the 1970s in response to the oil crises and included ...