STEP on the gas if you want to cut your fuel consumption. That’s some of the
advice you’ll get from a new dashboard device that tells you how to drive more
efficiently. It could reduce your fuel costs by a sixth—and you’ll still
get from A to B as quickly as before, say Dutch and Swedish transport
experts.
People often believe that you have to drive slowly to be fuel-efficient, but
that’s not the case, says Mark Dougherty of the School of Transportation and
Society in Borlänge, Sweden, which supervised the fuel-efficiency project.
“They think to accelerate gently will get a better fuel consumption,”…
