US Drivers Could Save 2.4 Billion Gallons a Year by Obeying Speed Limits, Study Finds
The study found 43% of trips included speeding, but drivers who obeyed limits lost only 54 seconds a day.
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US drivers could save 2.4 billion gallons a year by obeying speed limits, study finds
Saving a minute or two by driving faster may feel harmless, but new research suggests the habit comes with a high collective cost. What's happening? A study out of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities found that if drivers across the United States simply followed posted speed limits, the country could save around 2.4 billion gallons of fuel each year. To measure the broader effects of speeding, the researchers examined its role in fuel consum…
Speeding Barely Saves You Any Time, New Study Finds
There are lots of reasons people speed while driving. Saving time, according to a new study, is not actually one of them—at least not in any meaningful sense. Researchers at the University of Minnesota analyzed more than 120 million vehicle trips across the U.S. to measure what speeding actually costs—in fuel, emissions, money, and time. […] The post Speeding Barely Saves You Any Time, New Study Finds appeared first on VICE.
Do you need speed? Driving above the speed limit is expensive for you... and, in fact, it doesn't save you much time Posted by MPR Driving speeding to work, picking up kids from school or going from one errand to another not only involves unnecessary spending on gasoline and generates harmful emissions into the atmosphere, but it hardly saves you time, according to a new study. It's something worth thinking about, as gasoline prices remain high …
Driving the speed limit could save Americans billions every year, new study finds
Simply driving at the posted speed limit could save Americans billions of dollars in fuel costs while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. The study, published in Communications Sustainability, found that slowing down to legal speed limits could have a surprisingly large impact […] The post Driving the speed limit could save Americans billions every year, new stud…
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