Do Prius people wave to each other?

[wildspark]

Hi everyone. I baught my prius yesterday.. took it for a long drive. LOVE it! I used this forum alot in my research. Thanks to everyone. ! I woke up this morning and turned off the reverse beep. Unnessary beeping makes me crazy! My mission now to figure out how to upload my phone book into the hands free! Have a Verison voyager. I'm not sure its possible. I'm also going to figure out how to post a pic... Enjoy the day!

[kirkrv8]

Well I don't have our Prius yet, but I did get to drive a friends and you bet I waved to some other Prius owners

[Neicy]

People don't seem to wave anymore. To a lot of people it's just another car (yeah, I don't get that either) and there are too many around here to be waving at all of them. Instead I now give them one flash of the high beams if they are coming from the opposite direction. Can't remember getting a wave back if I ever did get one. Too bad cuz it would bring me such joy.

[tasker109]

i have started it here.....sometimes i "beep beep" but if i catch their eye, i wave. we all know we are special!! some people respond and some dont. thats ok....i dont get mad or upset. i just want to acknowledge their wisdom in buying a very cool car.

[mikem13]

I wave, but I have only gotten one response, I suspect a lot of it is that we have dark tint and my wave might not be seen. At least that is what I am choosing to believe.

It does seem like other people aren't looking out for other Prii as much as I am, but that might just be a function of how long I've had the car.

[KAR IDEA]

Sometimes I wave, beep or flash and sometimes I get those in return.

[edthefox5]

Nope. So I stopped doing it.

[Jiipa]

Back in '91 when I got my Miata the Miata wave was to quickly raise and lower your headlights and almost everyone did it. With the second generation Miata the headlights were fixed and by that time there were so many Miatas on the road the wave died out. It may be the same with the Prius now, there are just so many Prii that it is becoming just another car to many owners (the ones that don't come to PC) and they don't wave. I have waved but only got one wave back

[mingoglia]

Us Jeepers still wave at each other and that's been goin' on for decades. I've found that most Prius drivers that I encounter drive with tunnel vision and won't make eye contact to wave. They're probably concentrating to hard on their MPG graph.

[TonyPSchaefer]

I used to wave. In '04 it was novel to see another Prius and we would recognize each other. In '05 there were a few more which meant more opportunities to wave and give the "yeah, I know this car's great" head nod. In '06 fewer people waved back to me. In '07 I started getting either the confused "do I know you?" look or the "Oh God, don't think I'm one of you" eye aversion.

So I don't wave anymore unless it looks like the other person is going to wave back.