When I drive my car I have 5 goals. 1 is to get to my destination, 2 is to press my accelerator pedal is little as possible. 3 is to press my breaks as little as possible. 4 is to follow the rules and 5 is turn learn a small amount of the Spanish language (from my CD).
I see cars accelerate towards a red light then brake hard when they are close to the stop line. Some cars even drive over the stop line and use the second stop line for bikes. To me they are daft because when you press the accelerator pedal, you are turning stored energy into kinetic energy, when you press the break pedal you turn the kinetic energy of the car into heat energy which is radiated away from your wheel wells into the open air, I call it wasting energy. When I am approaching a red light I take my foot off the accelerator pedal and let the car slow down on its own. The friction of the engine parts and the air resistance slow down.
Too many cars are driven like too fast, at the time I wrote this blog entry most cars were powered by petroleum or diesel fuel which is more expensive then electricity.
