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05-08-2007, 01:11 PM
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A little press coming. Highwater, psyshack
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05-08-2007, 03:33 PM
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very cool! Is that you in the video psy? WIll you record the video and put it on youtube?
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05-08-2007, 04:11 PM
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Highwater and I are in it. Him with his Insight,,, me with the Civic. Once it airs the whole segment should be on the kotv website. I will get a copy from them.
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05-08-2007, 09:53 PM
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It will be interestin to see the reaction of the general public and the type of questions the reporters ask. I'm sure that there will be the same issues of that's crazy it's dangerous ect. Have you done it yet and are just waiting for them to air or is is still in the works?
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05-08-2007, 09:57 PM
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WTF are finger gestures?
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05-08-2007, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by zpiloto
It will be interestin to see the reaction of the general public and the type of questions the reporters ask. I'm sure that there will be the same issues of that's crazy it's dangerous ect. Have you done it yet and are just waiting for them to air or is is still in the works?
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Air time thrusday evening 10 pm new cast. Thats the commercial there playing now in the link.
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05-08-2007, 10:20 PM
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WTF are finger gestures?
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Yeah know,,, the bird. Fist shaking. The things one see's when not doing like all the other drone humans.
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05-10-2007, 10:43 PM
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It aired tonight.
There is video and links at kotv.com. Link is there for this site also....
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05-10-2007, 10:57 PM
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Very cool Psyshack! And thanks for the link!  |
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05-10-2007, 11:09 PM
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http://kotv.com/e-clips/?id=6090
That should be the link for the spot as it aired on tv. There is other video and such on the site.
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05-11-2007, 12:09 AM
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Really cool. We now have a couple of celebreties on the site.
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05-11-2007, 05:22 AM
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Interesting video, even I learned something from it. That thing about staying on the right side of the lane is new to me. Also I noticed it's easier to coast in neutral than to coast in gear. Sometimes in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway I can get 50+ because all I'm doing is just following from a distance in neutral.
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05-11-2007, 08:53 AM
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Nice work Psy. Congrats on the hypermiling exposure.
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05-11-2007, 09:41 AM
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Great Newscast. I find it funny that at the end of the whole segment, they remind viewers that coasting out of gear is illegal.
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05-11-2007, 10:20 AM
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Great Newscast. I find it funny that at the end of the whole segment, they remind viewers that coasting out of gear is illegal.
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Is coasting downhill illegal in all states? Well Is it in Ohio? |
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05-11-2007, 11:53 AM
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05-11-2007, 12:19 PM
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Great piece of work! Matt, do you know if the number of hits has gone up since the sight aired, last night?
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05-11-2007, 07:54 PM
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Great piece of work! Matt, do you know if the number of hits has gone up since the sight aired, last night?
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I can say that there have been 366 visits from the KOTV website since yesterday. Hopefully there will be more still. |
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05-11-2007, 09:31 PM
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Supposed to be the same in Cali. No idea how they could stick it to you.
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05-11-2007, 10:32 PM
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Nice!
That was a great news piece! Way to get the exposure out there... 
Yeah, coasting in Neutral is illegal almost anywhere, but so is going 46 MPH in a 45 MPH zone.
It made a good point, though. Hypermilers are more attentive to the road and surroundings, and often drive under the speed limit -- which Law Enforcers should be very pleased with.
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05-11-2007, 10:55 PM
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I am glad too see the exposure on the news.
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05-12-2007, 02:07 AM
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I'm from Tulsa! (Just doing a short co-op in Houston) I love to see KOTV doing a segment on us. Sometime next fall we should have a gassavers meeting in Tulsa. I had no idea there were more people in the Tulsa area that were gassavers.
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05-13-2007, 08:42 AM
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I'm from Tulsa! (Just doing a short co-op in Houston) I love to see KOTV doing a segment on us. Sometime next fall we should have a gassavers meeting in Tulsa. I had no idea there were more people in the Tulsa area that were gassavers.
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rh77 is in Tulsa some. I dont think Highwater ever gets to Tulsa. Im in Tulsa daily. So maybe we can get together for lunch or dinner sometime.
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05-14-2007, 05:23 AM
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Great Newscast. I find it funny that at the end of the whole segment, they remind viewers that coasting out of gear is illegal.
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Both of us wanted to make the point that Coasting in N ice on or off is extreme and possible against the law. I myself did not want folks with no skills getting out in the cars Friday morning and having wrecks! I could see army's of idiots all amped up about high mpg getting into there cars, cell phones to head and busting into a coast causing massive wrecks. As it turned out. Most have looked at it as a novelty.
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05-14-2007, 03:43 PM
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05-14-2007, 03:47 PM
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That was a great news piece! Way to get the exposure out there...
Yeah, coasting in Neutral is illegal almost anywhere, but so is going 46 MPH in a 45 MPH zone.
It made a good point, though. Hypermilers are more attentive to the road and surroundings, and often drive under the speed limit -- which Law Enforcers should be very pleased with.
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accualy if you get pulled over for going less than 5 mph over the speed limit and you fight it in court it will most likely be droped becasue of a cars spedo doesnt reflect exactly that it says. thier usually all off by +-1mph. some extreme cases 3 or 4 like my chevette  |
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05-14-2007, 06:01 PM
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gps and rentals
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accualy if you get pulled over for going less than 5 mph over the speed limit and you fight it in court it will most likely be droped becasue of a cars spedo doesnt reflect exactly that it says. thier usually all off by +-1mph. some extreme cases 3 or 4 like my chevette |
Through the GPS, I've seen rentals as far off as 6-7 mph at 60. Odd thing is that the VSS must've been accurate as the SG usually showed about the same as the sat-nav.
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