2010 Prius III fuel efficiency hypermiling results

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Consider it a word to the wise. Unless of course...

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Suit yourself. Ignorance is bliss.

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Your postings here speak for themselves.

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That is his MO; he does the same thing in the iPhone newsgroup. And the less he knows, the more strident and bombastic he is.

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No, the truth was out a long time ago: you don't care about working and playing well with others, you care ONLY about yourself and your desire to play your rolling video game. The rest of the world doesn't exist as far as you're concerned.

In that context, I'm pissed that you get in my way. Absolutely.

Since you have no desire to care about the world around you, I thought maybe I'd take the tack of pointing out some facts that you might pay attention to, since they affect YOU directly and that seems to be the only thing you pay attention to.

But it does get in the way of the traffic around you, which makes you dangerous on the road to the people around you. Again, you don't care.

It's not how the engineers intended the car to be used, and the placement of the battery is an example of that. The battery expects to be in the same operating environment as the standard driver. Not the freako driver.

You keep saying these things as if you know better than the engineers who designed the car--those same engineers who didn't bother to put in a different thermostat, for example. Huh. Why do you suppose that is. Well, you don't know because you weren't privy to the design decisions, so you just went ahead and made up some story that just happens to fit in with your desire to score high on your rolling video game.

Yeah. Do you know what rolling resistance is? No, you don't. All you know is, you found something to use to play your rolling video game. You have compromised the car's ability to stop and steer (of course, you do know that changing direction involves deceleration, which is stopping, which is why you now can't turn as well--right?).

Absolutely it is. If I catch you running into me or anyone else, a presumed contributing factor is because you compromised the car by running it outside of its intended parameters. And when you run into me, or cause an accident that either blocks traffic and causes delays or, God forbid, kills someone--that's my concern. That's the concern of ALL of society.

But you refuse to see that, because you've already rationalized to yourself that your desire to play your rolling video game overrides anything else--the cost to yourself or any cost to the world around you.

In other words, you've told the world around you to f*ck off, you're busy doing what YOU want, and THEY don't matter.

At the expense of everyone around you. No, it's not your own time. When you pulse and glide in traffic, you're holding everyone up and are driving in a way that people can't predict--which makes you dangerous. When you can't stop for the light, or when you begin stopping REAL early because you know that your tires are at the edge of any reasonable traction and therefore the people behind you are held hostage to your car's deficiencies with respect to normal traffic, it's NOT your own time.

You're telling the rest of the world to f*ck off because you want to be selfish in an irrational way that affects everyone around you.

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no surprise

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Hardly. Your ignorance speaks for itself.

Check the record. I make NO claims on Prius.

Definitely an expert on tire pressure and its effects on vehicle dynamics, which you will learn one way or another, probably at great personal expense. Remember to drive it all the way through the crash.

If an when the Prius v is available and found suitable, I won't be sub-optimizing it and endangering others -- as you have chosen to do with yours.

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Oh, really, Cocoa?

I do in fact support iPhones -- and their fanboi users. Far too much.

And I tolerate those who refuse to get it, here and there. Far too much.

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EXACTLY.

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If you knew half as much about the iPhone as you think you do, you would know ten times as much as you actually do.

But please continue to display your ignorance both here and there; you do provide comic relief.

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As do your lame replies.

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Why would they expose themselves that way with regard to liability?

The engineers have spoken, for the record. They have nothing else to say, specifically.

No reasonable person would expect the engineers to have any say, one way or another, for public consumption.

Again, you're leaping to huge conclusions based on how you wish the world worked--without any actual facts at your disposal.

"justify their cost"? To WHOM? Are you now in charge of determining for me the cost *I* must bear so that YOU can save gas? Are you now in charge of determining that *I* must accept your wildly gyrating driving style and your out of spec suspension (yes, tires and their inflation are part of the suspension that the engineers craft very carefully) simply because YOU declare it to be "justified"???

I don't expect to be driving next to someone who is randomly speeding up and slowing down. That's not how the world works. But YOU have declared that it "shall be so" simply because YOU think it's "justified"??

How would you know? Just because you never hear the curses of the people around you as you slip and slide in the wet, slow down way early for no apparent reason, and speed up and slow down in traffic again for no apparent reason, doesn't mean they're not there.

And do let us know when you've trashed your car early, causing the build of a new car. Oh, we know you won't--but I guarantee you will remember this when you see the early death of this car.

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He's betting with his warranty, auto and umbrella insurance. Good luck.

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