Friday, January 16, 2009

So Tempting



I hate 'em. No, not the car, it's a Toyota Prius Hybrid. I think the car is kind of cool. If I had the money and a place to park it, I'd have one for running errands and such instead of the 3 tons of metal I drive around normally.

No, it's the drivers I hate. Not all of them, I'm sure there are plenty of them that are normal and go completely unnoiticed by me. But there are those.....
Let me explain, this car has electric motors and a gas engine and it tries to use the gas as little as possible. When you brake, it's recharging from the motion of the wheels. It's pretty high tech. They even put a little display in the center of the dash that lets you keep track of everything. This is where the problem starts. You can set the thing to show you whether you're running on all electric or if the gas engine is being used. Some of the *IDIOTS* driving these cars like to see if they can go without using the gas. This means they pull away from stops v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y, and drive down the street at about 2/3 of the posted limit to the frustration of everyone else trying to use the pavement.

I'm pretty sure it would be against the law if I took my 3 tons of metal and pushed them. But it's tempting sometimes.

2 Comments:

Blogger earthkissed said...

I have to admit road rage is one of my big weaknesses, that would totally drive me crazy. Even today I was stuck behind a car going 20km under the limit and then slowing down to 30km under the limit anytime they passed a parked car, and at the first opportunity, I took a turn and took an alternative longer route, just so I wasn't behind them! Grrr....

1:07 AM  
Blogger pitfinder said...

No kidding!

There was a guy, years ago, in Chicago who went nuts with a snow plow. He didn't hurt anybody, he just 'plowed' a bunch of parked cars up onto the sidewalk. I think I wasn't the only person who felt a tiny bit on envy.

:-)

1:14 AM  

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