The point about not being able to shift into neutral or turn the Prius off at highway speeds is interesting....that must be a fail safe for idiot drivers too?
But havent the vast majority of cars that have had "issues", not been Prius cars? So what stopped those people from dropping it in neutral?
I also read an article about the "mental" aspect of all this type of hype/publicity. With the general public as soon as they hear about this type of stuff, ALOT of people manufacture in their minds that their car is doing the same thing, when it really wasnt. They flash back to the time they accidently had their foot slip and hit the gas and the car lurched forward....all of a sudden it wasnt them, it was the car...... "my car did that too!!!". The mind changes their memory to fit what they are seeing and hearing about now....and not what really happened.
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