In this episode we catch up on our project cars, respond to some listener mail (46:28), discuss some dumb shitty gadgets that promise to improve your car's fuel economy and performance but do the opposite (1:09), and a few news stories (1:50).
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I'm old enough to remember pre-gps pre-phone direction, that actually has helped out a lot with gas (depending what settings you have) vs the old map method.
Do you mean a paper map with routes specifically designed for better mileage? I've never heard of that.
I meant the development of widespread gps has been better for mileage overall, less room for user error and all that.
There's exceptions to this, rural areas and rugged terrain, and I think that's why a lot of truckers even the young ones still swear by atlases (paper map collections). For example, GPS out where I live likes to try to make me drive into the local lake whenever it floods, and passing thorough any sort of elevation of forest you generally lose your signal.
I never heard of atlases specifically designed for better mileage, maybe ones that noted traffic peak hours at best in major cities (green, yellow, red roads) but that seemed rare.
Ah that makes sense. A couple weeks ago my phone's gps was off by a few hundred feet and it kept telling me to turn onto the road I was already driving on.