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[Brett Dikeman]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, omar millmech <h636k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.seattleweekly.com/2009-04-22/news/the-flip-side-of-the-perfect-prius/1

"Traffic near the mall was congested but moving, and Riner kept the
Prius pegged at 60 mph, constantly looking at the console to manage
her fuel consumption.  Suddenly she felt the car hydroplaning out of
control, and when she glanced at the speedometer she realized the car
had shot up to 84 mph. Riner wasn't hydroplaning; quite simply, her
Prius had accelerated on its own."

Maybe she should have been looking at the road and her speedometer,
instead of the fuel consumption meter, and then she wouldn't think
that her Prius magically accelerated to 84mph.

Such a concept is liable to be shocking to an eco-idiot who thinks
that a gasoline-burning vehicle that gets ~40MPG is "giving the oil
companies the bird."

-B