<![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Before long we'll be downloading ring tones that our cars can play while we drive.

mfeiler

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Awesome visualization of the image :)

Frost Face

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Soylent Green is people!

thechoop

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @TPSreports:

i'm going to have to agree with cornfield_racer...the windows are usually down in my car, and when there's a Harley within a half-mile, i'm craning my neck, trying to figure out which angle the Horseman of the Apocalypse is coming from.

loud pipes definitely make a difference.

my question for cornfield_racer....dude- how bad is your tinnitus?

rusty68

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @TPSreports: You don't ride much do ya? The difference between the noise of the 2 bikes I ride (cruiser and enduro) is the difference between people merging over and about killing me and knowing im there. Loud pipes DO save lives.

CORNFIELD_RACER

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I'm loving that image too. Good work.

I was actually surprised by a hybrid SUV a few weeks back. I was walking down the sidewalk and I didn't hear it until it got much closer to me than I would a regular car. That said, I still heard it. I would imagine that a blind person with their much more acute sense of hearing would have probably heard it way before I did.

respawn

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Still lovin that image!

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> How soon before that Al Gore image is released as the album cover for a band's demo?

pitchpitch Type-Я

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> National Federation of the Blind.

And yes, Prii are quiet enough you can't tell when they start moving.

Joe Clark

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @VanTwee: I like blind people way more than I like hybrid owners. For the protection of the vision impaired, we must outlaw these smarmy deathmobiles!

TRAMS_AM

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @enoughropers: hey, don't worry about trying to be relevant.

camp6ell

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Butthead: "Hey Beavis, checit out, he said 'Pra-i-us!' What a dork!"

Beavis: "Yeah, he's a dork, Butthead! No way he's gonna score!"

Butthead: "Maybe we should grind his bunghole and kick him in the nuts!"

Beavis: "yeah, kill, kill, kill!!"

Butthead: " Uhh, shut up Beavis, before I kick your ass! Huh huh!"

akirachan

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Has no one mentioned whistle tips? It goes like "Woo Hoo I'm better than You!"

rt4

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @Bluegoose:
Make it sound like a 2 stroke 750 GP bike from the 80s with a little Ducati dry clutch rattle noise thrown in and I might just have to buy a Prius. Custom plate would read: PRIUPISM

crevans

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I've always thought that Prii should have an external speaker under the hood to play various sounds/music while in electric mode.

I'm partial to The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, as heard in Woody Allen's movie "Sleeper," when folks rolled around in cars that looked then like Prii do now. (They were rolling around in them when they weren't rolling around in Orgasmatrons, BTW.)

scotte

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> What I need to know, which is the right fuel for my hybrid, Soylent Bronze, Soylent Silver, or Soylent Gold?

Maymar is convinced M.C. Escher engineered his car

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> What's next? Drunks claiming they're being run-down by ethanol burning Chevy's?

"It drew me in for the kill."

pickletickle

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Why not just install a whoopie cushion in each hybrid's drivers seat?

Use regenerative technology based on the stereotypical driver vibrating in self-righteousness for inflation/deflation.

SeanKHotay

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Oh my god, blind people are assholes! Tell you what, I'll give a warning honk before I mow your squinty ass down.

VanTwee

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I vote for Stephen Colbert's induction into the Jalopnik Fantasy Garage. I also vote for Jalopnik to create a Jalopnik Fantasy Art Garage for the sole purpose of inducting that image into it.

tony-e30

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @Rust-MyEnemy: If there's no depreciation in the forest (or anywhere else for that matter) does it make a sound? But seriously, what depreciation? If you've got an HOV sticker, you might as well just ask for sticker.

Daga

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Maybe they can increase smug emissions by blaring the Hallelujah Chorus. Or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Or Kermit the Frog's "It's Not Easy Bein' Green." Hopefully this will induce the blind to attack the "vehicles of (non-denominational tolerant, pacifistic) God" with their canes.

Joetimek

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I think they should start including a pack of baseball cards so you can stick them in the spokes.

banner77amc

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> If you can't hear the engine, you'll certainly hear the depreciation

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I think biodiesel is overhyped. the rainforests cut down to allow room for the palm plantations causes climate changes as serious if not more so than emissions. it is being pursed recklessly in SE Asia.

the push for palm oil biofuel is worrisome for some environmental groups which charge that new plantations will destroy rainforests and habitat for such threatened Indonesian wildlife as orangutans, Sumatran tigers and rhinoceroses -- and also infringe on land used for local livelihoods.

biodiesel is just not that green.

enoughropers

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I think they should make either the Jetsons' bdbdbdbdbbdbdbbdbdbt sound or the Flintstones' tockitytockitytockity sound.

weazel

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Heck, just clothespin a playing card between the fender and the tire - should generate enough noise.

Won't cost much either.

fawgcutter

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> If Al Gore doesn't get you, then his reckless kid certainly will. And that's the "inconvenient truth."

dorkusmaximus

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> all the clatter? Backwater Hummers mash cripples (of the Iraqi variety) all the time. Good doogy chow is so hard to get in the Middle East.

sluggo

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> lol amazing image.

In an interesting twist, i grind up baby seals to fuel my Suburban, which i drive in 4wd on road and on dry days.

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> What's the

sluggo

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Who knows how to Digg this page?

SwatLax

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @Bluegoose: REAL LIVE ACTION automotive movie car sounds!... Models; KITT, A-Team, Dukes of Hazard, Ghostbusters, and many more! Hurry offer valid only while supplies last...

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> @Bluegoose: For that kinda money, it better sound like Speed Buggy.

beercheck

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I think Hybrids should have a fake sound effect that begins the minute the gas pedal is depressed. I could just see the late night ad now...

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Bluegoose

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> I tremble in fear of the silent death that is the Toyota Prius. I have nightmares of the Birkenstocked murderers who prowl the parking lots of 'the nice part of town'.

Please return us to the safety that was the 'right sized' economy cars of the 70's. Fashionable eco-friendliness should not cost us the lives of our sight-challenged brothers.

Save Stevie Wonder! Don't buy a Prius!

Bret

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> Friday funnies!

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> That's the best image of any kind I've ever seen.

Comrade Teargaskov

]]> <![CDATA[Colbert: Hybrid Fuel is Blind People]]> It's a bullshit myth. Just like motorcyclists who go on about "loud pipes save lives" = total BS

TPSreports

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