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Originally Posted by Khan
I have been researching the Prius and have noticed that people have said: "The car trains you."
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The accelerator (can't exactly call it a "gas pedal" anymore) is just a voting machine, not a throttle. And the brake pedal is actually connected to a dummy cylinder just so that you feel you're pushing against some feedback. Most of the acceleration & braking is done by the motor-generator (pushing electrons in the appropriate direction). Under normal use the brake pads don't even come into play until the car slows to 7 mph.
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Originally Posted by Khan
As I have mentioned before: just recording usage (money food electricity...) will often get you decreasing same.
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Exactly. That's why 50 years after the invention of automated logging systems, submariners are still walking around with pens & logsheet clipboards.
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Last edited by Nords; 05-28-2008 at 09:02 PM.
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