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Driving faster than the speed limit costs you and doesn't save much time 96%
7/26/2026, 3:05:07 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 24 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Authority, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 45.3% saturation with 117 hits. Analysis detected 923 faulty-reasoning hits from 258 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89.7% and a BS Rank of 96% (1,260 of 26,004 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 95.20% of the video peer group.
You're running late, so you hit the gas.
But, what if speeding barely gets you there any faster?
Researchers analyzed 120 million trips across [music] the US.
They found that driving the speed limit could save millions of gallons of fuel everyday, and drivers commute time would pretty much be the same.
In other words, driving faster than the speed limit costs you, and doesn't actually save much time.
>> Just try driving slower and see how much it affects your time, because it's not going to affect it very much.
I say, "I know I'm in a hurry, but if I if I just go at the speed limit, I mean, I might be a minute later."
And that's not a big a big deal, especially [music] especially considering the danger of speeding.
>> At highway speeds, air resistance increases dramatically, forcing your [music] vehicle to use more fuel just to keep moving.
>> As you go to faster and faster speeds on the highway, [music] um aerodynamic drag takes over as the main contributor to [music] the force applied to the vehicle, which increases the power exponentially.
>> The researchers estimate that sticking to [music] posted speed limits could save Americans about 7 million gallons of fuel everyday, and keep tens of thousands of metric tons of carbon pollution out of the atmosphere. [music]
So, if you're speeding to save time, you
may only be saving seconds, while
spending more at the pump.
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