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High gas prices no deterrent for wasteful driving habits

Special to the Star

You wouldn’t know gasoline prices are currently hovering around $1.35 per litre. Not by the way Torontonians are driving out there.

I commute up and down Hwy. 404 each day and when I am a passenger, I get to make some interesting observations.

We usually drive down in the right lane at around 100 km/h when weather allows. There is a pattern to the flow of traffic and it follows that pattern about 9 out of 10 days. The right lane moves quite consistently at that speed with a minor slow down around 16th Ave. The left lane, on the other hand, starts off at a higher rate of speed of anywhere from 120 to 130 km/h on good days.

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Then almost every day the brake lights come on as the left lane population exceeds its capacity and that lane ends up doing the “yo-yo” run of speeding up and slowing down for several kilometres. It’s like clockwork and it usually happens in the same locations. On top of that, the drivers in the left lane are usually surprised by it.

What really amazes me is to see the vast majority of pickup trucks in the left lane charging along at speeds of 120 to 130 km/h. The last few days we encountered only one pickup truck in the right lane and all the rest were in the left lane. Big SUVs also seem to gravitate toward the left lane.

These behemoths are the worst personal vehicles for fuel economy you can think of (other than the Hummer, of course, which I call the “Dummer” since I can’t think of anything dumber to drive). First of all, most pickups have very thirsty V8 engines and at least two tons of mass. Secondly, they have the aerodynamic efficiency of a brick.

Aerodynamic drag (or wind resistance) increases exponentially with speed. In other words if you double your speed, you quadruple the amount of aerodynamic drag. This particular type of drag really comes into play at speeds over 100 km/h. Go 20 per cent faster and you will use 40 per cent more fuel. This means that keeping these gas guzzlers below 110 km/h makes a lot of economic sense.

Here are some puzzling questions that have me wondering what some people are thinking.

Why are most of the gas guzzlers driving in the lane that produces the worst fuel economy?

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