Actually if the cop pulls you over and thinks you're drunk he's going to waste a lot of your time. When a cop asks you if you had anything to drink just say you're sleepy. A drunk person and sleepy person has a lot of characteristics in common. Of course a sleepy person isn't going to run from the police unless they have a good reason.

Once you tell them you're sleepy they will leave you alone.

I learned this from traffic school. They actually put together drunk people and sleepy people and put them on a test course. The responses were super funny from drunk people. Sleepy people were like whatever when they ran over something.

I look for the potential for excelling in all of the above in the same car.

I very badly want a streamlined race car that not only can kill Ferraris, but gets good efficiency(80+ mpg equivalent).

Believe it or not, you can get arrested for driving while tired.

Control your acceleration by shifting later (higher rpm) for faster acceleration or earlier (lower rpm) for slower acceleration while giving it heavy throttle to keep the pumping losses down. Avoid rapid starts and stops in heavy traffic because it just pisses off the guys behind you and if they start honking their horn wave them around so you get them in front of you so you can watch the accident they cause with a clear view. You should practice a few fast accelerations from a stop to get a better feel for taking off and also a few takeoffs without using any gas plus holding it on a hill without gas if your idle is high enough and a little heal toe work is helpful (gas and brake with the right foot) unless you have a center console hand brake - I use that a lot on uphill starts so to protect the rear ground effects on my xB because most of the time the jerk behind me is right on my bumper and I don't want to roll back into him.

ROFLMAO, that is the funniest thing I ever read.

So press the gas harder but still shift sooner??? That's pretty much what i have been doing. before it didn't work so good because when I would go in second my car would bog like crazy because of my dirty Throttle body. There were a lot of close calls. Other cars almost touched my rear bumper when I went into 2nd.

I don't even parallel park, even on a lever surface. I still can't get the feel for the engagement point. Forget about parking on a hill. I'd rather park the car on some level place and walk half a mile.

Study Shows...
 

A UK TV program (Fifth Gear -- darn I miss that show) did an impromtu test on Legally Intoxicated Drivers and Sleepy Drivers (with a control group of normal drivers). It turns out that the driver who lacked rest drove as bad, on the average, as the drunk driver group avg. Of course there's variability in tiredness and intoxication, but it really showed the danger of sleepy drivers.

Other studies in more controlled environments show this again and again. So yes, it's reasonable to get a ticket for inattentive driving when you're too sleepy.

RH77

Bump!

Where the heck is Bunger, anyway? Isn't it bad hypermiler etiquette to steal the top of the charts and not provide some commentary about it?!

I didn't even know this thread existed. So I was #1 for a while eh?

Lol! here he is 11 months later.