I can't seem to reply directly to gsbrockan's comments but I'll do it here where John Barca made his accurate and thoughtful assumption. I made eight stops for the exact reason he stated - taking a break from driving. The stops at the pump were NOT fill-ups, rather, they were only partials. I'm convinced the biggest variability was how consistently I topped off the tank. I took it right to the top until it was within a 1/2 inch of spilling out. Bottom line is - the DIC was as accurate as the manually calculated MPG.