Re: Toyota says no evidence 'runaway' Prius happened

Elmo P. Shagnasty · 2010-03-16T12:47:56+00:00

see, you're representative of the public at large. You can't possibly imagine that a Prius could behave like every other car in the world--even though you've never owned or driven one.The driver can indeed yank the shifter into neutral and/or turn the car off. Yanking into neutral is as easy as it is in a Buick--touch shift lever, move to neutral.And you know what happens? Yeah. No drama. Drive system disengages, gas engine stops running, car immediately starts slowing down.If you're using the power button, they've programmed it with a 3 second delay. You'd know that if (a) you owned one, and (b) you bothered to read the owner's manual of your shiny new $25,000 toy. Of course, arrogant asses who claim they know everything about driving never bother even to open or keep track of their owner's manual, let alone read it, so they wouldn't know how their specific car operates. Even when they get in and see that there's no key like in their '67 Buick, they never bother to investigate how that power button works.Correct. So? It *does* have a shifter, it *does* have a neutral position--why do you think moving the shifter to neutral "might not be that simple"????Just like your '67 Buick does, yes. It's called "shift the sonunvabitch to neutral and coast to a stop".Dude, SHIFTING TO NEUTRAL IS NOT A "TOYOTA INNOVATION". What the fuck is so hard to understand about this simple and oh-so-basic function?For Sikes to have claimed that "I thought the car would flip if I shifted to neutral" is enough for me to demand that he be taken off the road for the rest of his life.

Mar 16, 2010 150 Replies

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Jim Yanik 16 years ago

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Unsupported assertion. Cite please. you have NO proof the brake cuts off power to the electric drive.

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Jim Yanik 16 years ago

"E. Meyer" wrote in news:C7CA84BE.18F97% snipped-for-privacy@verizon.net:

Integra was a derivitive of the Civic.

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Jim Yanik 16 years ago

"Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote in news:elmop- snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Yes,it does.

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pws 16 years ago

I agree 100%.

"It's more fun to drive a slow car fast than to drive a fast car slow" has been a favorite of mine for years.

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Elmo P. Shagnasty 16 years ago

Did you hear about the guy who asked his Jewish roommate if he could borrow $50?

The roommate's response: "Fourty dollars? What do you want to borrow thirty dollars for? Do you know how much money twenty dollars is? And even if I had the ten, which I don't..."

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Cameo 16 years ago

Polish jokes are out, too.

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Cameo 16 years ago

I see. But the Integras are no Civics with delusions of grandeur. Got it.

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Cameo 16 years ago

I've had no idea that you were Canadian!

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Nasty 16 years ago

Or Scottish. Didn't notice the accent I guess.

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Tony Harding 16 years ago

SINCE WHEN? :)

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C. E. White 16 years ago

So is this an example of irony or sarcasm?

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