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Another driver screw-up

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by dmanthree, Mar 19, 2010.

  1. dmanthree

    dmanthree Junior Member

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    #1 dmanthree, Mar 19, 2010
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    john1701a Prius Guru

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    Nearly a decade of Prius driving here without incident, then reports suddenly coming up from a variety of different years/models makes no sense. It's too easy of an excuse conceal driver-error by blaming the car.

    Fortunately, word about that is getting out about this.

    Unfortunately, people tend to just take reports at face value without research of there own. Which is really sad, considering how simple resources like Google and Priuschat make finding info.
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    #2 john1701a, Mar 19, 2010
  3. Surfdolfin

    Surfdolfin Surfin the Blizzard Pearl

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    As assinine as it sounds, if someone wanted to be famous for a day ... They can just drive their Pruis into something (not a wall, already been done) and should also get the lead story on Today Show and Good Morning America.

    John, your comments are correct .... no issues for 10 years, and all of a sudden it's a daily occurance?:confused:
     
    #3 Surfdolfin, Mar 19, 2010
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    20-30 complaints in like 10 years, now 140 in 2 months, how are they going to spin this one?
     
    #4 cossie1600, Mar 20, 2010
  5. dmanthree

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    Toyota hysteria at its worst. And worse yet, some old lady drove a car through an office building here in MA, and all the reporters could say was "it's not a Toyota." They mentioned the name 'Toyota' five times, but never identified the car's brand; Infiniti. This is getting stupid and any driver who screws up will blame the car, as long as it's a Toyota.
     
    #5 dmanthree, Mar 20, 2010
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    This is what happened when you allow stupid lawsuits to take place.
     
    #6 cossie1600, Mar 20, 2010
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    Spin the Pepsi can.
     
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    I had an acquaintance who was one of the FDA researchers who tested the supposed "syringes in the Pepsi cans". The FDA was able to test just how long the syringes had actually been in the cans, and was able to disprove all of the bogus claiims.

    I was just relating this story to someone this past week, as we were talking about the Toyota allegations. Nice to see that someone else remembers this grand hoax also!
     
    #8 yardman 49, Mar 21, 2010
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