BS cnn.com headline

Sounds like they were a bunch of idiots. Both CNN and the testing centers.

There is a little dance you go through to get the engine to idle all the time at certain RPMs.

The following is copied from the KB article. http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=5952

The following must be done within 60 seconds:

1)Ignition on (not READY mode)
2)Vehicle in Park
3)Step on accelerator pedal twice
4)Place vehicle in Neutral
5)Step on accelerator pedal twice
6)Place vehicle in Park
7)Step on accelerator pedal twice
8)Place car in READY mode.....ICE WILL RUN continuously (see rpms below)

A warning icon on the MFD will be displayed.
With less than 60% throttle applied.....idle is 1500 RPM (approx)
With more than 60% throttle applied.....idle is 2250 RPM (approx)

 

I don't know if CNN responded to angry Prius owners, but now the caption on their home page is "Georgia's emissions mess."

 

In CNN's defense, the link on the front page as of right now says:

That sounds fair to me. It's clearly a contradiction, and a common ploy to get you to click-through as people say to themselves, "hmm, that's weird, I wonder what that's all about."

 

Huh. My car runs fairly continually just by turning on the front defroster...

 

Lol

I feel for the driver but if you are going to require a vehicle be tested the technicians should know how to test the vehicle. I cant believe the techs would just go well we don’t Know how to test it so fail it. I hope they don’t get ev’s in that state because they would probably require it be tested and they would all fail when the tech’s cant find the tail pipe.

 

Prius: no good deed goes unpunished.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IAO @ Apr 16 2007, 12:47 PM) [snapback]424168[/snapback]</div>

I can.


Its very cynical, I know, but I've actually seen this attitude in different but similar scenarios. Different = Bad.

 

OMG! What a bunch of idiots.

Even our normally incompetent CA state bureaucrats predicted this and simply gave all hybrid owners waivers on emissions testing. And that's on top of not requiring emissions testing until a car is at least six years old.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Husker4theSpurs @ Apr 16 2007, 11:00 AM) [snapback]423999[/snapback]</div>

Since this isn't posted in FHOP I'll keep my comment to myself. In NJ testing is done with all accessories turned off. In this situation if the driver had the defroster on to keep the engine running, Goober would turn it off. If it wasn't a real problem for some people this would be really funny.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IAO @ Apr 16 2007, 02:47 PM) [snapback]424168[/snapback]</div>

Heh heh... this reminds me of what happened here in Ontario. The province introduced the Drive Clean program in 1999 as a means to reduce pollution. Originally, cars had to be tested every second year after they were 3 years old (now changed to begin at 5 years). Of course, sometime around 2003/2004 when the first hybrids on the market reached the age to become subject to the tests, it took the nitwits behind these laws some time to figure out how to test the emissions of a car that doesn't idle!

Within a few months or a year (don't recall exactly), Ontario ruled that hybrid vehicles are exempt from emission testing, thereby saving me $40 every two years (woohoo!).

Oh, and the early adopters who had to pay for the emissions tests on their Prius or Insight were refunded their money.

 

/lives in Georgia...

 

I give some lawyer about 24 hours to file a class action lawsuit to recover the smog check fees for every hybrid owner in the state...

 

Almost had this problem in Nevada. I had to be tested becasue I moved from California.
At least the slack jawed yolkal at the Vegas testing station knew about Prius and just told me to pump the throttle to keep the ICE reving fro the test, and viola! I passed.
I guess they must be first class morons in Georgia.
(I already know CNN is full of first class morons, so no surprise at their telling of the story)