If more people tried to drive like that, the roads would be a better place. A large number of traffic jams and accidents are caused by people making large sudden, and often unnecessary, adjustments to their speed.

Back in a time of there being many orders of magnitude fewer cars on the road, combined with long stretches of cross-country roads, I could see that being possible, allowing for a small margin of hyperbole in the story!

Almost as bad as the people who have to cut you off for the sole purpose of waiting in front of you at the red light.

I question the legitimacy of Shark Tank but the Canadian Dragon's Den is slightly less sensationalized. Plus, you can look up a lot of the businesses that turn up on the show; they actually do exist.

Yeah, generally you won't fail within the first year unless you jumped in with a dangerously low amount of capital in the first place. Generally these small businesses can continue to operate in some capacity for years until the founder burns through all their personal assets, at which point they have no business, no…

Watching Dragon's Den or Shark Tank is a great example of this. People come on with some of the most ridiculous ideas ever conceived, and then leave in tears when none of the investors want to get involved with their "next big idea". But of course in the post-pitch interview, they're all defiantly confident and…

My philosophy about driving is that all your maneuvers should be as smooth as possible, with the end goal of maintaining as much momentum as possible. This is probably one of the easiest "hypermiling" techniques; and it'll also result in less wear on your car.

Unfortunately most North American driving exams are far too easy; and they tend to not wean out the reckless/bad judgement drivers.

Blasphemy I say! The accelerator should be fully depressed at all times!

I try to do this too. If I see a light it red off in the distance, I'll coast to the intersection (traffic behind me permitting) and hopefully avoid having to actually stop. This is a lot smarter than the genius who has to speed past you at 20 over the speed limit, cut you off, and all just to slam on the brakes to…

Yeah I've seen this in suburban Montreal. Some of the west-end boulevards have coordinated lights so that if you drive at the speed limit, you'll only hit something like one of every five lights. If this is advertised properly, it can potentially lead to people being more inclined to actually drive the speed limit.

And it's always some middle-aged person in a German SUV. Every time.

This is what I came here to say. What I find even more perplexing are the people who see the light turn red from a ways off, knowing full well it'll still be red by the time they get there, yet continue to go well over the speed limit just to get to the stop line faster. All you're doing like this is burning…

Well written article! More seriously though, throwing someone in jail for speeding of all things is a waste of tax dollars beyond any negative adjective I can think of. There are legitimate crimes out there that could be prosecuted instead, but no, it's better to nail the guy who's driving a fast car at a speed that…

Very true. We kind of learn to do things that don't necessarily come naturally, but eventually think nothing of it just because that's how it's done. Shaking someone's right hand doesn't really seem strange to me, but I do realize how this is something I have to do with my less dominant hand.

As a minority living in a world designed for right-handed use; lefties tend to notice things like this a little more than your average right-handed person.

As a lefty myself I never really stopped to consider this; but it actually does make sense in a number of social situations.

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Well now we're comparing insulation against road noise rather than purely the audio quality.