I got a new Prius

I'll let you know.

Don't worry, we'll find out REAL WORLD how good this thing is on gas. My driving habits will remain the same; my practice will be to keep up with traffic under all conditions, and to drive like I drive my 94 Lexus and 02 Odyssey over the same routes, city and highway, flat and mountain.

No video games here. Just real world, I-have-a-life-outside-this-damn-car living. The journey is NOT the reward.

It's on board computer will become you in short time. If the Prius fails it's because you are a failure.

This is good - wider.

It's still a double one, right?

Yeah, this is the one I had noticed.

And unlike my other flip-down seatbacks, they're really quite flat when they fold down, which is nice.

That's a good thing, in this case.

Thank you.

Cathy

I'd almost make a bet you won't be able to keep your eyes off that damn screen for at LEAST 100 miles! It's like a friggin' eye magnet...you HAVE to look!

But it goes away after 100 miles or so.

Also, these cars have a fair amount of PERFORMANCE, since the electric motor starts to move the car before the gas motor, so ALL your torque comes on right off the line! Why people drive these cars like 80 year old women that can't see over the dash is beyond me!! VA-RRROOOOOOOMMMMMM!

Nah...I'm probably the most courteous driver (besides yourslf, of course) you'll ever see! I don't have 30 years without an accident for nothing! But, I can cite two places, one on RT 5 in Deerfield, and two on Rt 9 in Belchertown and Ware where you DON'T want to come up on someone doing

Of course I learned my lessons after the first couple times on either stretch, but Good Lord! Never mind the screen, the economy, etc. If you're more interested in disrupting the flow of traffic so you can save a few pennies on gas, well,

THAT'S WHAT BUSES ARE FOR!!!!!

I don't get it! These cars perform well and handle well, and are a BLAST to drive, but everyone seems to be more interested in squeezing every mile out of every gallon of gas they can! DRIVE the thing!!!

Thank God!! ;)

I was telling Mark about an area on Rt 5 where the speed limit is 50 and the visiblity is limited. About 5 months ago a guy was driving a CRANE on the road and came upon a Prius driver doing about 20MPH. He wound up tipping the crane over a small embankment in order to not KILL the person in the Prius. Luckily, he came out with only scratches.

The Prius driver took off and never looked back...

Drivers who let their stalled car sit in the middle of a road give me a first class pain. But the fact is you are only responsible for what goes on ahead of you . Not behind you. When I received a summons to show up at a arbitration hearing, in small type at the bottom of the paper it read I was guilty of allowing my vehicle to hit another vehicle although the other vehicle was illegally parked. That Prius driver you mentioned wasn't doing anything illegal by driving 20 miles an hour. Foolish maybe but not illegal. I mean, if foolish was a crime you'd be in jail 24/7. I think in your case Hachi, you've had a clear record for too many years and you lost touch with the reality of the legal system and most of all, why some people drive slow. Fuel isn't necessarily the reason.

Remember the 'parcel shelves' they used to put under the dash?

Or, am I showing my age...

I know they were looking for her for a while...they wanted to ask her some 'questions'...

Actually, there ARE minimum speed limits...I think for a 50 MPH road it's

I hit a dog that wasn't on a lease. I was asked questions too by the police. It wasn't because I was guilty of breaking the law. I could have forced the dog owner to pay for the repairs to the car but my insurance man said the dog owner paid a heavy price all ready and I agreed with him. I suppose maybe the ASPCA could have gotten involved. But it was clear the accident wasn't malicious on my part.

I'll cut to the chase because this topic is wearing thin. If the police caught up with her and she said something like a bug flew in my eye, what are they gonna do? She did the responsible thing. Even if she was drunk as a skunk, what are they gonna charge her with? I'll tell you. Anything but being responsible for the crane's mishap.

Hachiroku ???? sez...

Can you turn the screen off? _________ ===fish=== ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

Only a moron who has no life and who doesn't know how to drive HAS to look.

I know exactly what I'm getting into. I have an acquaintance with one of these things, and he drools over the video game. Bah.

Pretty much.

Top hatch and bottom hatch, each with its own release. Storage spaces are an awkward shape, as some fool law seems to require.

What you do is have a different screen up, like the radio selection screen. One that you would not be drawn to. This is what I am trying to do now... Tomes

This could turn out to be a useful experiment. Having a sceptic driving the Prius exactly as he would some conventional car does make a lot of sense.

To ensure meaningful results, remember to keep tyre pressures as specified; they should be shown on a sticker on the frame of the driver's door, up to 160 Km/hr and above (but T's way of showing "up to" and "above" is their own non-standard invention).

Oh, and braking fiercely is also likely to waste energy, because the regenerative braking can only exert so much force. Extra is exerted by normal hydraulic brakes which of course throw it away as heat.

BTW, adding more than about 10 litres to the tank resets the MPG calculator on the central display to 0 miles. But I imagine you plan to keep a separate log book anyhow.

Okay, you seem good to go. Safe+happy driving...

(*sigh* It's silly to, I know, but you can't help worrying when the kids set off into the wide world in their own Prius, for the very first time. Will they remember the proper way to press the pedals, the right incantations when adding fuel, all the details which make such a difference?)

Only when Posted around here. There is no specific minimum. There is, however, 'obstructing the normal flow of traffic'.

Story time. Once a looong time ago, I rear-ended someone on the Garden State Parkway. In the left lane they just jammed on their brakes, screeching to a halt for no reason. I hit her as I (who was not tailgating, by the way) could not stop my truck as fast. Bam. Turns out that she imagined that her drive shaft fell out (?) and jammed to a stop. There was nothing wrong with her car at all. The cop gave her 100% fault for 'obstructing the normal flow of traffic', and I got nothing against me at all, even though I was the hitter in that crash. Insurance bought that too. Tomes

I remember them. I liked them. Nowadays they don't want anything sliding around loose to distract the driver. Thus all these slopey dashes and all. The storage places now are enclosures or out of driver sight (like the wayback). Tomes

AIUI, yes. But I forget where the on-screen control is. Never wanted to lose all of that lovely accident-promoting eye candy. Hunt around. To switch it back on, this manual says: press the side button marked Info, then select Trip Info.