Prius or Prius Drivers Suck More?

[ADDirishboy]

Wait, doesn't cali have cell phone laws?

[Ace2cool]

Wait, doesn't cali have cell phone laws?

Yep. That was the first thing I thought of when i read it.

[hbpignosePA]

this is why i drive cars with a cable driven throttle

and im pretty sure you CAN just hit the off button

he was probably more afraid at the idea his s***box could go 90mph

and what nub dials 911 for that?

he probably is just trying to milk the situation/profit from a known problem

[wa-chiss]

To turn any toyota, push button start car off in gear, you need to either press and hold the ignition button for a few seconds or press the button 3 times fast. Both ways will turn the car off. The salesmen go over that when the douchebags buy the damn car. But, instead of listening, he/she is drooling over their brand new car. LISTEN DAMNIT! The salesmen aren't talking just to hear themselves talk. There are things the salesmen say that you NEED to hear and comprehend.

[silkysmoothyjud]

"Um, Im sorry offisker...The throttle on my Q45 was sticking.." I like it!!!

[wa-chiss]

this is why i drive cars with a cable driven throttle

and im pretty sure you CAN just hit the off button

he was probably more afraid at the idea his s***box could go 90mph

and what nub dials 911 for that?

he probably is just trying to milk the situation/profit from a known problem

Yeah. The Prius isn't even part of the "unintended excelleration" recall. Which in fact, there are only 4 confirmed cases regarding that recall. All of witch are linked to floor mats. Not toyota floor mats but the owners installing 3 or 4 layers of floor mats so the pedal gets caught behind the mats when it's depressed. I would like to see his driver side floor board.

[Razi]

Time to put a Toyota badge on my car and use this excuse....

[King Ranzo]

I pick both. Prius' are stupid and Prius drivers are dumb, ignorant, earth-hugging, ninckompoops who don't know how to own a proper vehicle.

[sx moneypit]

I read in my local newspaper this morning that this s**t went on for like 20 minutes.

[twofortyesecks]

Neibert told Sikes after the CHP caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip.

This is the proof that Prius drivers suck more.

[S13_love]

[Razi]

WOWNeutral = car flipping? Wtf.Some drivers....

A few people at my school thought a car's brakes didn't work if you went into neutral.Where do they come up with this stuff?!

[Sentientbydesign]

If 90mph is sufficient cause for you to panic, you need to start taking the bus. And definitely get off the same roads I drive on. Yeah, 90mph is above the speed limit. But it isn't really that fast. Certainly not so fast that you can't calmly try and shut off the car. Most traffic is probably going 75 anyway...15mph difference isn't exactly catastrophic unless you're such an incompetent driver that you have no business being behind the wheel of a car in the first place.

Two arguments, for and against your comment.

1) Have you ever driven a Prius? - I have as a test drive for a friend. They are anything, but stable cars. I've driven F150s that seemed tighter in corners.

2) Those freeways down south are very fast. On the 15, if you don't go 90, they honk at you or give you dirty looks.

On a side note, I HATE Priuses and their drivers. In the past 2 months, I can think of at least 4 instances where a Prius made a jack-@$$ maneuver that could have resulted in a collision.

[hatedinthemind]

If he turned the car off wouldnt the steering lock and if he put the car into neutral wouldnt that cause the rpms to go thru the roof since the throttle is stuck?

[krimsonviper]

If he turned the car off wouldnt the steering lock and if he put the car into neutral wouldnt that cause the rpms to go thru the roof since the throttle is stuck?

Blown engine > Dead people

[hatedinthemind]

Blown engine > Dead people

True but having a engine blow up could be catastrophic and kill

[krimsonviper]

I highly doubt a Prius engine has enough power to blow through its block at catastrophic levels.

[Razi]

10hp of fury y0!

[Jesda]

Beats hypermiling.

[Sentientbydesign]

True but having a engine blow up could be catastrophic and kill

Don't they have like 135hp as combined between the anemic little 4 cylinder AND the electrical motors?

The gas engine should have a fuel cut at redline like any normal car. What would be interesting is if the engine and motors started spinning too fast and overheated the electrical components.

I think the old guy just wanted an excuse to drive "fast" in his POS and possible to get a new car from Toyota.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Don't they have like 135hp as combined between the anemic little 4 cylinder AND the electrical motors?

2nd gen Prius's 1.5 liter gas engine makes 75hp.3rd gen has a 1.8 that makes 89hp.

Both are Atkinson cycle motors (neat concept, great for efficiency) and thus have very high compression ratios (13:1).

[ricebike]

yea some people need to learn how to shift to neutral. signal to the right and slow/coast to a stop...

i wouldn't want to turn the ignition off because it may affect the steering:

here's a video proof of how neutral works for those "new" or uninformed drivers:

http://priuschat.com/news/vide...-nsfw

i think i just made this thread NSFW