DriveSlowly Promotes Slower, More Efficient Driving
Ypsilanti, Michigan is in the outlying suburbs of Detroit and is, itself, a city with a long automotive heritage going back to the Tucker Torpedo and Kaiser Motors and extending to a present day Ford assembly plant and the last Hudson dealership in the country and an Automotive Heritage Museum. But now, a local couple have embarked on a different direction towards automobiles, encouraging drivers to embrace a new mindset with a website called DriveSlowly, which they are unveiling for Earth Day.
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Raelyn and Adam Davis created a website to collect information and share stories about doing better by driving more slowly. Drive Slowly is a site that offers resources and information about improving vehicle efficiency and decreasing emissions (if you’re getting better mileage, you’re automatically putting less CO2 into the atmosphere) and encourages drivers to ” Go slow– Save Money, Fuel, Earth, Lives.”
By adopting a more moderate approach to driving, Adam calculated that he is saving more than 85 cents per day (or $200 per year) just in his work commute. This also means he is averaging 2 MPG better than what he was previously, and he is saving over 1000 pounds of carbon emissions per year.
They write, “We discovered the economic benefits of slowing down and wanted to share this information. While this is available separately from a variety of sources, we pulled it together into a new comprehensive resource that combined the benefits of slowing down.”
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image source: DriveSlowly.org
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Yayy for common sense! You go, Slowbies!
Everybody should listen up and get with the program! Its all good.