Duct tape increase FE 6%

[SVOboy]

I thought it was all a joke...

[Matt Timion]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

I thought it was all a joke...

You thought right. Apparently everyone gets it... well, almost everyone.

[diamondlarry]

Hmmm, I wonder if the color of the duct tape would matter?

[thisisntjared]

Originally Posted by Matt Timion

You thought right. Apparently everyone gets it... well, almost everyone.

everyone that isnt obsessed with crotches gets it

[Compaq888]

well that's a sick joke then. Duct tape can increase fuel economy but if articles write that kind of crap then I won't read them anymore.

[SVOboy]

It's just illustrating how tanks can vary and produce deceptive results, it's not a jokem per se, but a parody.

[thisisntjared]

yea lighten up

[Matt Timion]

Originally Posted by Compaq888

well that's a sick joke then. Duct tape can increase fuel economy but if articles write that kind of crap then I won't read them anymore.

as I said in a previous post the duct tape is meant to be a "control group," or a group with no fuel economy modifications. This is standard practice when conducting experiments. The experimental group(s) are compared to the control group to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the groups.

In this case, they showed that the duct tape group (no mods) actually had better fuel economy than any of the other modifications. This proves two things:

1) Gas mileage can vary a lot between tanks
2) The modifications made no difference

The entire point of this post was to illustrate this and to sarcastically draw attention to the fact that duct tape was more successful than any of the commerically available modifications.

No sick joke. Nothing serious.

[Compaq888]

Originally Posted by Matt Timion

as I said in a previous post the duct tape is meant to be a "control group," or a group with no fuel economy modifications. This is standard practice when conducting experiments. The experimental group(s) are compared to the control group to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the groups.

In this case, they showed that the duct tape group (no mods) actually had better fuel economy than any of the other modifications. This proves two things:

1) Gas mileage can vary a lot between tanks
2) The modifications made no difference

The entire point of this post was to illustrate this and to sarcastically draw attention to the fact that duct tape was more successful than any of the commerically available modifications.

No sick joke. Nothing serious.

so what you're saying is duct tape which is practically cheap improved fuel economy while expensive POS crap did nothing

[Matt Timion]

Originally Posted by Compaq888

so what you're saying is duct tape which is practically cheap improved fuel economy while expensive POS crap did nothing

Ugh. Read what I wrote again. Duct tape did NOTHING.

NOTHING.

NOTHING.

Pretend that the duct tape was replaced by a Pez dispenser, or a box of tissue on the passenger's seat.

The entire point of the duct tape was to show that doing NOTHING at all (ie, adding a piece of duct tape to the car) can yield more economy than buying one of these gadgets.

That has nothing to do with the Pez dispenser, the tissue, or the duct tape. It has everything to do with variability in testing.