06-19-2011, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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Prius drivers found a new self centered way to be annoying
I've seen this happen several times recently. When the Prius driver gets to an intersection where they are making a turn and they have a stop or yield sign and the traffic on the street they are pulling onto doesn't have a stop sign, they will wait until there is miles of space between cars so they can accelerate slowly only using the electric motor and batteries after making the turn. Often they don't pull out into sufficently large gaps in traffic that are large enough for most economy cars to safely pull out. What they fail to notice is that the dozen or so cars behind them waiting for 5 minutes are wasting large amounts of fossil fuels. So even though the Prius owner is using less fuel, they are causing all the vehicles behind them to waste plenty of fuel idling away waiting to make the turn. Also it causes a large backup of traffic behind the Prius. A recent example of this was when I was behind a Prius while waiting to make a right hand turn onto a road that was two lanes in each direction. Traffic on my street had a yield sign. There was a Prius in front of me making the right and they were waiting and waiting and not pulling out to make the right. Several minutes go by and some of the gaps in traffic are literally large enough that I could get out of my car and briskly walk to the center divider of the street and back before the next car got to our position. At first I thought something was mechanically wrong with the Prius in front of me. Traffic was backing up behind me. It was getting close to 5 PM on a weekday and there was well over a dozen cars behind me at this point waiting to make the right hand turn. After an old lady doing 25 MPH in a 40 MPH zone in the right hand lane on the two lane road we were waiting to pull out onto passed by and there was no car for well over 1/4 mile behind her, the Prius driver slowly pulled out. I saw that there was more than ample room to make the right hand turn and pull out onto the road and I passed the Prius driver before the road went from two lanes to one. Many other cars and trucks waitign behind me also were able to pull out into this large gap in traffic. At this point I figured out that the Prius driver was one of those self centered Prius drivers waiting for a large gap in traffic so that they could accelerate up to the speed limit without using the gasoline engine and use minimal electricity. There wasn't enough room before the two lanes merged for me to safely pass the old lady doing 15 under the speed limit, so I got stuck behind her at the next light. Most of the traffic ahead of the old lady and the traffic that passed by while we were waiting to make the right hand turn made it through the light I was stoped at. Behind the Prius was over 8 cars, most of which were behind me waiting to make the right hand turn. When the Prius driver caught up to me at the next light, she started waving at me. At first I thought it might be someone I know, but I didn't recognize her. Then I figured out by the way she was smiling and being over dramatic that the was trying to make it known that she caught up to me after I passed her. I guess she thought her self centered, fuel wasting actions were amusing because she caused me not to make it through the next light and caught up to me. Because of the Prius driver's actions not only did all the traffic behind the Prius waiting to make the right hand turn sit there for an unnecessarily long time wasting gas and diesel , but the same traffic had to sit at the next light, waiting more gas and diesel fuel. If the Prius driver pulled out when there was room to safely pull out, a few seconds after they stopped and waited to make the right hand turn, then the traffic wouldn't have been stuck behind the old lady doing 25 in a 40 and also would have made it through the next light instead of sat there wasting more gas and diesel. It makes me wonder how much gas and diesel that driving behavior wastes because of all the traffic behind this driver waiting long times to make turns? Is the Prius' fuel savings from waiting forever to pull out into traffic largely offset by all the idling traffic behind the Prius and all the traffic that gets caught at the next traffic light because of the Prius driver's actions? I added a photo to help clarify things if that helps.
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06-19-2011, 06:38 PM | #2 |
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I think you should drive by one with your window down, holding a gas can and pour it on their car as you drive by. I'll follow you with the match.
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06-19-2011, 06:47 PM | #3 |
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06-19-2011, 07:36 PM | #5 |
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They're trying to use their 30k investment efficiently... Stop bitching about it... I dunno about you, but I can think at least 20 things that drivers do that pisses me off more. It really seems that the Prius has a divided crowd. on the left, there are the owners and approvers and on the right are pitch fork yielding pricks. Live and let live for ****s sake.
These people arent driving a Prius to be "Smug" "self centered"... They're driving them to save money, END OF STORY. They want to maximise their ROI with their 30k car. Do you realize that the Prius gets about 15-17 MPG flooring it? They're ball slow and if they had to floor it all of the time they wouldn't save much on gas at all. They just need the additional space to accelerate due to lack of HP. With all of that said... I think they all should have bought used metro or civic hatchbacks.... |
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Thanks for giving me another good reason to hate Prius drivers, or at least most of them that fit my stereotype. For some reason I don't mind hating on them even more since they are so annoying. Starting tomorrow this may cause me to yell out my window every time I see one "Fuk you, asshole, and your annoying piece of szchit car"
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06-19-2011, 08:09 PM | #7 | |
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I just can't believe you drew a picture.
I can agree that it's annoying, but it's not just Prius owners. I myself plead guilty to being "that guy" sometimes because I know my vehicle doesn't have the acceleration to safely "merge" from a stop. Even my teg was sketchy sometimes because I'd lose traction.
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Dont sweat this so much. Just follow them out and overtake it before the merge and be on your merry way.
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its all hybrid owners. i carry nuts and bolts to throw at them on the highway. i figure the cost of replacing the windshield offsets the fuel savings. i passed an altima hybrid a couple weeks ago on the highway at about 75 and the dude gave me the finger. made me laugh. youre just mad casue my 20 year old v8 gets the same highway mileage as your $40k hybrid. you only buy hybrid cars if youre already an asshole.
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dude not only did you write a really long paragraph to express your anger, you took a google picture of said intersection and drew some cars. you must really hate the bitch.
that being said I hate people that stop at a yield when they can clearly merge safely into traffic without stopping. I would had cussed her out if she waived at me. |
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Yea, I figured I'd have to be completely clear so I wouldn't get a million questions asking me about the intersection.
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I'm sure she could have continued without stopping if she pressed the accelerator down a little further, but then she would have had to run on gasoline and not batteries alone.
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Ever since I took a Prius over 100 at my last job, I've wanted one. I just think it would be so funny getting a speeding ticket. Reminds me of the trailer for that new movie Horrible Bosses. "You wanna explain why you were going 65 in a 25 zone? I was drag racing. In a Prius? I don't win a lot."
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