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    REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death

    Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    This disaster really hasn't had nearly enough mainstream media attention. This might actually remind people Toyota is just as bad as any other automaker when it comes to pinching pennies.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    What's more, for all the press this is getting, no one remembers that they did this recall several years ago for a few models of Lexus - for floor mats causing the accelerator to stick. ...but I'm not going to dig up the article every time. It did happen years before the crash that set this off, and the problem still wasn't fixed.
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    Image of logruszed logruszed
    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    Some lawyer just got to use a fancy pen to write some more zeroes to a paper being drafted.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    "You need to tell somebody."

    "Yeah, sure thing, man."

    /forgetsaboutitlikeeverydoes
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    This is like spotting an iceberg whilst on a cruise ship and telling a stowaway rat "You need to tell somebody".

    If it did tell somebody higher up it'll cop a boot in return or someone will say "look a talking rat" and then they sink.

    It's a cynical outlook but I'm afraid lots of large companies would rather stick their fingers in their ears and yell la la la al at the top of their lungs and hope the problem will go away.
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    12/07/09

    In reply to REPORT: Lexus Floor Mat Almost Caused Fiery Death Before Causing Fiery Death
    a company already on the hook

    Unlike the floormats! Amiright, folks? Zing!
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    Image of GreenN_Gold GreenN_Gold
    12/07/09

    @Ash78, cube farmer: The only thing about a Camry that is off the hook is the floormat.

    (No heckling. Two drink minimum. Tip your waitress.)
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    Image of LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
    04/29/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    BULLSHIT!

    84mph in a Pissus?
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    Oh, and maybe she misread "84 mph" for "84 mpg" and panicked? Just a theory.
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    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    I've never seen a Prius that wasn't going 84 mph.
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    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    Clearly, what it needed was a surge protector.
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    04/28/09

    @flyingstitch: Nice! Heart click for you.
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    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    "I was looking at the asshole-hippie gauge instead of either the speedometer or the giant hill I was going down and now I am shocked that I'm going 80."


    I feel like there is some test people need to fail before buying a Prius.

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    Image of RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment RLJ676-LS3 Commuter Car - for the environment
    04/28/09

    @BradMW:


    The tests are out there, and include but aren't limited to, "good taste", "business acumen", and "actual enviromental impact awareness."


    You have to fail at least these 3 to purchase a Prius.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/28/09

    @rlj676-Carbon Footprint Size - Clownshoe: You only have to fail the latter two to buy a Fusion or Escape Hybrid, at least...
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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    Get some real tires? Oh, wait, that would hurt your mileage by 2 or 3 mpg. I know that's overly snarky, but I'm simply amazed at how crappy many tires are. "Ooooh, this one has an 80,000 mile warranty!"


    And the rubber compound is rated on the Mohs Scale, too.

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    04/28/09

    @Ash78: If you mean "real" as opposed to "low rolling resistance", you know they haven't thrown those on the Prius since '03, yeah?


    Otherwise, I agree. The Goodyear Integrities that come on that car are shit and a half. Even the Regatta 2 is a much better tire.

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    Image of Ash78, cube farmer Ash78, cube farmer
    04/28/09

    @Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: You mean the Prius doesn't come stock with low rolling resistance tires? Seems like most every passenger car has some form of low-resistance Michelin or Continental all-season on them (in order to hit EPA numbers).
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    04/28/09

    @Ash78: Well, I'm sure the OEM Goodyear Integrity's rolling resistance isn't particularly high, but it's loads better than the specially-designed Low Rolling Resistance tires that the old Prius, Insight, things like the Cobalt XFE (I believe) come with.
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    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    I was following a Prius yesterday. It was being driven by an elderly man. When it got onto the motorway he accelerated.


    I can only assume this was unintentional, I've never seen it happen before...

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    Image of FЯeeMan FЯeeMan
    04/28/09

    @Rust-MyEnemy: Honestly, I've never really seen a Prius driven in an 'economical' manner. They all drag away from the traffic lights and cruise at 70-80 MPH around here.


    It's the idiots in the Corollas who are always driving slow in the left lane.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    Even the Prius couldn't stand the goddamn hyper-miling.
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    Image of Thrashy, perpetual Minardi Thrashy, perpetual Minardi
    04/28/09

    In reply to Toyota Prius Owners Experience The "Unexpected Adventure" Of Sudden, Unintended Acceleration
    I'm horribly torn! On the one hand, a smug dumbass Prius driver who doesn't ever actually look at the road got what was coming to them. On the other hand, a car is getting bad rap because some people can't grasp that the speedometer is linked to wheel speed, so they don't understand that she probably *was* just hydroplaning. On the other hand, it's a Prius that's cathcing the flak, and that's not so bad. On the other hand, the idiot driver has been and will continue to endanger others with her inattentiveness. On the other hand...


    ...THERE IS NO OTHER HAND!

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/28/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes:


    To be perfectly fair, this is not a new issue with cars that use CVTs.

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    04/28/09

    @Thrashy is like FTF, but for CRXes: One of my hobbies back when I delivered pizza was to see, on a rainy day, how high I could get my speedometer before the traction control kicked in. There was one very straight and uninterrupted thoroughfare in my old delivery area which also benefitted from poorish drainage, so if I hit the patches right, I got the speedo up to 70 some, maybe 80 miles an hour? Good times.
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