Prii on the roadside? Is there a common problem?

[F8L]

I am short on time and cannot search right now but..

On my way to and from Canada on I-5 this week/weekend, I saw 3 Prii on the side of the road with their hazzards on. 1 was in Vancouver BC. and no one was near the car. The last one was on the backroads near Dixon Ca. and there was a truck parked in front of the car assisting him/her I guess.

I was just wondering if there was some issue affecting people that I was not aware of or are these just coincidental? Just seems like in the last month I've seen more Prii on the side of the road than normal.

[hobbit]

Well, that sucks... you didn't stop to inquire, I take it?
Musta been those crazy hypermilers, trying to push their tanks...
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_H*

[F8L]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hobbit @ Aug 6 2007, 05:09 PM) [snapback]491586[/snapback]</div>

Well, that sucks... you didn't stop to inquire, I take it?
Musta been those crazy hypermilers, trying to push their tanks...
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_H*
[/b]

No, only one incident lent itself to stopping and asking but stopping from 70mph on a major freeway and backing up to get to them proved more dangerous than the data was worth. I did feel bad though because one of them was an older woman but she was on her cell phone.

Just seemed really weird to see so many on the side of the road. In fact i get a text last week from a friend who was laughing at me because he thought he saw me stuck on the side of the road in the Bay Area even though i was in Carson City NV. at the time.

[oly_57mpg]

It's probably all the new 07 drivers that can't figure out when they need to re-fill with fuel!

I've gotten into many _heated_ arguments with my ex-fiance about simply calculating the average MPG times the number of gallons that were pumped at the last stop to indicate how many miles on a tank you can drive - all this after she ran mine out of gas on I-5 NB just south of Olympia, Wa. She still doesn't get it. Perhaps that's why there's an ex before fiance now...

[TonyPSchaefer]

It's probably all the new 07 drivers that can't figure out when they need to re-fill with fuel![/b]

Or perhaps, "my engine shut off so I immediately pulled over!"

[oly_57mpg]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 7 2007, 09:04 AM) [snapback]491783[/snapback]</div>

Or perhaps, "my engine shut off so I immediately pulled over!"

[/b]

Good one! Hahahaha!

[FBear]

I know that the car has a guess-gauge in it but when it gets down to two pips, I just fill it up. No calculations no running out of gas. Why do people feel they have to ring every last drop out of the tank to figure out the gas mileage. That's what a paper and pencil (how retro) or a calculator are for, write the mileage when you fill up, drive around until the tank's almost empty refill the tank note the mileage. Do a little subtraction for miles driven divide it into the gallons of gas. Whoa! that was really tough.

[subarutoo]

On the LA freeways, I see 30 to 40 Pri every day. Never seen one parked along the road, or on a tow truck. I see everything else, but no Pri, so far. Must be a local thing, Or mileage obsessed idiots trying to stretch that last blinking pip.

[richard schumacher]

Or, "the battery display went down to two purple bars so I immediately pulled over!!".

[AussieOwner]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FBear @ Aug 8 2007, 03:44 AM) [snapback]491911[/snapback]</div>

I know that the car has a guess-gauge in it but when it gets down to two pips, I just fill it up. No calculations no running out of gas. Why do people feel they have to ring every last drop out of the tank to figure out the gas mileage. That's what a paper and pencil (how retro) or a calculator are for, write the mileage when you fill up, drive around until the tank's almost empty refill the tank note the mileage. Do a little subtraction for miles driven divide it into the gallons of gas. Whoa! that was really tough.
[/b]

As I was reading this thread, I could not understand people leaving the fill up until the last moment. I have always worked on the basis of filling up (on any car) when the gauge got close to a 1/4 full. For country driving here in Australia, it was more of fill up as soon as the gauge got below 1/2 - you never know how far the next gas station may be.

I still have the fun of filling up only half as often as before, but never fear running out of gas.