Gas-Saving Moment of the Day: Habit Adjusters
We've written before about changing your driving habits in order to save gas, and we've also told you about hypermilers, who take habit-adjusting to the extreme. However, putting those gas-saving lessons into practice in your own life is another story. To help you incorporate good driving behavior into your everyday errands and commute, we now present to you gadgets like the Fuel Mizer.
This digital device sits in your car and, without any installation, lets you know when you're wasting gas with a particularly poor choice of driving method. You’ll see and hear a "gentle" alert when you accelerate or brake too abruptly. The Fuel Mizer costs $69.95 plus shipping and handling, but if it can change your driving habits, the EPA estimates you can improve your car's efficiency by 20%.
How long it will take to recoup the cost in saved gas depends on your vehicle's fuel economy and the price of gas — although with the price per gallon creeping toward the $5 mark in some places, it may be less time than you expect.
Hitting the Road With Digital Fuel Mizer (TechnoRide)
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Couldn't you just save the 70 bucks by just doing what they recommend in their ad, namely, accelerating and braking slowly?
Americans don't like to change their lifestyles. Just like how it's much much harder to keep the weight off than to simply lose weight for that cruise, because you have to completely change the way your mind revolves around food, it's also hard to drive gently -- ESPECIALLY in cities where the jerk behind you is riding your behind so hard you can't even see his/her windshield washer nozzles. ironically, commuters usually drive to and from cities and probably have a hard time adjusting to a new way of driving.
when the 2nd generation of Priuses came out and became quite popular, i've seen/heard of a lot of (?jealous?) people who hate how they drive just at the speed limit and accelerate so slowly, etc. that's not going to change (no durable change anyway)