Why does 5 mph slower feel like it adds a bunch of time but 5 mph faster doesn’t affect the eta much.

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Something that’s always bothered me about driving is I can drive 5 mph over and barely speed up the gps, however if I accidentally drive 5 under the speed limit, (My brand new truck doesn’t have a speeding) it will add a bunch of extra time. Is there an equation or something that shows you how fast you’d have to go to actually lower the time needed to arrive. Is it just a mental thing or is it math. Any and all information welcome!

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Let’s say you’re driving 100 miles if you drive at 105 mph you’ll arrive in 57 min

If you drive 95 mph it will be 63 min

That’s a 10% slower result.

Maybe that helps. Not sure if it does. In my life I’d rather just take it easy and get there 6 min slower.

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