are there any advantages to Driving Slower?

Brake pads should last longer too.

Brake pads should last longer too.

********* Maybe not. Stop your grinding braking practices, and you will probably improve your brake life.

GO FUCK YOURSELF NOW ASSHOLE

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No, beyond saving gas there is no advantage for you to be a pain in the ass to everybody else in the universe. As a practical matter, driving slower does not really save anything. What saves a lot is slowing the rate at which you go from 0 to 60 and from 60 to 0 for that matter.

It saves gas--in some cars, quite a bit of gas.

So you go on 'roid rages against people doing 55 in the right lane? And why would you do that?

One, why are you telling me this, I said the same thing. Not in those words, but the same thing. The very first thing I said was, "No, beyond saving gas there is no advantage ..." Saving gas is the only advantage. There could be savings on tire wear and fuel consumption, but tire wear comes more from taking a 30mph exit at 45 than going 60 instead of 50, and brake wear comes from waiting until the last second to mash on the brakes and applying 4G to the seat belts instead of noticing that the next light is gonna still be red when you get there so you may as well coast a few hundred yards instead of holding the gas pedal to the floor just so you get another chance to apply

4G to the seat belts again. One can still go 60 instead of 50 -- not go slow -- and do things to save on tires and brakes, and one can also do things that eat the crap out of tires and brakes AND go 50 instead of 60 -- go slow -- at the same time. So, going slow is not the key to saving tires and brakes, it is only a key to saving gas.

Two, the question was, "BESIDES SAVING GAS, IS THERE ANY BENEFIT TO DRIVING SLOWER?" Everybody knows that you can save gas by going slower, the question was if other automotive systems will also benefit from going slower.

Three, nothing I have ever said should indicate that I go on rages about people doing anything in the right lane. If one wants to go slow -- I pull a trailer and am frequently among that crowd -- then doing so in the right lane is precisely the right thing to do. The problem comes when the guy in the left lane goes the same speed as the slow traffic in the right lane, or goes just enough faster to take 5 miles to complete the pass and in the mean time there is a traffic jam built up behind him/her.

Nothing you ever said should indicate that you go on rages about people doing anything in the right lane?

So maybe you can comment > No, beyond saving gas there is no advantage for you to be a pain in the ass

What about someone driving 55mph in the right lane (for example) makes that person "a pain in the ass to everybody else in the universe"?

So you're now retracting your *blanket* statement that going slower makes you "a pain in the ass to everybody else in the universe". Now you're qualifying it, and even admitting that you yourself would have been covered by your own blanket.

Nice tap dancing there.

Going slower than everybody else does make you a pain in the ass if you are going slow in the wrong place. I'm not reversing anything, the issue is not going slow or going fast, the issue is if there is anything BESIDES FUEL MILEAGE to be gained by dropping the speed. So, I stand by my original response, "No, there is nothing to be gained beyond the savings in fuel." And, going slower makes you a pain in the ass to the entire rest of the universe.

Ask the Prius driver why he insists on going slower than the flow of traffic as a single driver in a carpool lane. He'll tell you that he has a fuel-pass that lets him go as a single rider in the carpool lane, then try to claim that he only needs to do the speed limit. Clearly this driver is a pain in the ass to the entire rest of the universe because he could do the speed limit in any of the other lanes and still go the same speed as he is going in the only lane that multi-rider vehicles get to use, and they should not be hampered by the slower car hogging the lane. Clearly this is a driver that is going 55 and NOT in the right lane.

As a matter of fact, it was discovered that cars from the 60s and early 70s actually developed problems as a direct result of the national 55mph speed limit. Cars have a power band, and the lower speed limit factually resulted in many cars operating outside of that band, the results were widely varied but it generally boils down that while lower fuel consumption happened nationally, the cars did not like the abuse that came from driving them too slowly.

To whom? You?

well, of *course* that's true. Just like it's true that going faster than everybody else makes you a pain in the ass if you're doing it in the wrong place.

Comfort level?

Is there anything to be gained by forcing people to go the speed you yourself desire? Other than making YOU happy, that is.

So what if grampa is more comfortable going 55 in the right lane? As long as he adjusts for entrance ramps and keeps that flow of traffic smooth, what do you care?

Because, of course, no one else is allowed to have a comfort level that's different from yours.

You sound like those people who think that anyone going slower than you are is an idiot--while anyone going faster than you are is a jerk.

So that's one single instance of PITA thoughtless driver.

But if he were in the "correct" lane, would he still be a PITA?

Citations or it's bullshit.

That has nothing at all to do with the fact that "driving slowly" does not equal "driving improperly".

How many on the road who are driving at *any* speed is a proper driver, driving well and allowing for a good flow of traffic?

it's not about the speed.

Not, it isn't. Not by definition.

If it happens, it happens no matter what the speed of the driver.

Your claim remains refuted.

Bullshit.

you know, there's something about people who feel the need to declare a plonking.

Regardless, your claim remains refuted.

What about those driving 65 on the freeway and doing so in a manner that causes congestion at exit and entrance ramps?

BTW, your claim of "causing congestion at an exit ramp" is nothing more than pure bullshit. Exit ramps are nothing at all like entrance ramps with respect to causing congestion and helping traffic weave together.