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Originally Posted by Dreamzqt
1. Do you guys down shift and engine break when you see a red light or just coast in neutral?
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Originally Posted by Dreamzqt
2. How do you go about 'creeping' or 'crawling' through SLOW moving traffic?
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If you have a light foot, you can drive this car gently at 6 MPH around 1000-1100 RPM without lugging the engine. When I'm in stop and go traffic, I leave extra room in front of me and try to find the average speed that keeps me from having to stop. If traffic dips below 6 MPH, I just clutch in and coast or brake. If it suddenly speeds up, I accelerate a little more slowly than the assholes around me to avoid the inevitable slamming of brakes because the idiots in front of me were too stupid to realize that traffic did not really just magically go from 6 MPH to 40 MPH.
I try to think and see ahead so that all my acceleration and braking are fluid. If I can position myself to see traffic up ahead, I keep an eye on it so that I can slow down preemptively if it's stopping rather than just staring like a dipshit at the brake lights of the car in front of me. Sometimes it's not possible to see cars, but I can see their shadows. This helps avoid sudden braking.
The trick is to remain calm and centered and not let assholes infect you with their asshole mindset. This requires ignoring the assholes around you tailgating people to keep other drivers from cutting in front of them and not letting their impatience infect you. It requires not automatically jamming the accelerator to the floor when the assholes around you suddenly accelerate. It also requires ignoring the people who suddenly cut in front of you without realizing that just because you left some extra room does not mean your lane is moving faster.
They won't get there any faster by acting like assholes, and neither will you.