mpg
I just noticed a TV ad for the new Mazda 3 sedan, which included a blurb claiming 33 mpg on the highway. That led me to thinking, "how optimistic is this figure?". How optimistic are all the gas mileage claims?
I'm guessing not many people keep tabs on their vehicles', but I could be wrong. I keep a small calculator in my truck. My motorcycle has a small computer which does the math. In my youth I was anal enough to have kept a logbook recording every tidbit of information. But I digress.
That 33 mpg was most likely derived from testing in a controlled (and unrealistic) environment. No doubt they all do it. Get me behind the wheel and I can probably return less than 25 mpg (in just as unrealistic conditions, but maybe less so... I've seen how people drive). With the internet at our fingertips, it would be nice to see numbers that reflect real world driving through a collaborative effort much like a wiki database.
But that would seem anal, wouldn't it?
I'm guessing not many people keep tabs on their vehicles', but I could be wrong. I keep a small calculator in my truck. My motorcycle has a small computer which does the math. In my youth I was anal enough to have kept a logbook recording every tidbit of information. But I digress.
That 33 mpg was most likely derived from testing in a controlled (and unrealistic) environment. No doubt they all do it. Get me behind the wheel and I can probably return less than 25 mpg (in just as unrealistic conditions, but maybe less so... I've seen how people drive). With the internet at our fingertips, it would be nice to see numbers that reflect real world driving through a collaborative effort much like a wiki database.
But that would seem anal, wouldn't it?
Labels: advertising, gas prices, mpg, transportation
posted @ 9:08 PM
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