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pete bogumill · Sep 2, 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(azzieo @ Sep 1 2006, 04:31 AM) [snapback]312642[/snapback]</div>

I'd like to state from the beginning, that I don't mean to piss off the old(er) members of the board, but just wondering if other people find that odd:

I took a 10 mile trip this morning... first 5 miles took 5 mins to drive to the ramp, accelerate on the freeway, and then hit the traffic.... the next 5 miles - creeping away for 25 mins.. at the end - I look at my Consumption display and I see one bar at ~25mpg and 5 bars at ~75mpgs. Great!!!.. This visual with mostly high yellow bars looks like 66.67 avg mpg for these 30 mins!!!

Well - I'm no math god or anything but that's actually misleading visual presentation of the situation, which in fact is that I have driven 10 miles in 30 mins, with avg speed of 20mph and avg mpg of 37.5..... well - what seems like 66.67 is actually 37.5.

...and before someone jumps on me I'd like to state that I'm NOT complaining about 37.5, and that I DIDN'T enjoy my ride LESS, and I will still try to convince everyone I know that Prius is the greatest car on the market today....
BUT,.. the Prius has a computer that already has the really relevant data about my trip - the Avg.Speed., so it's mind boggling to me, why can't I see that information. The simplest thing to do is to at least put the miles traveled in those yellow bars, for every 5 min interval, which will give me some perspective of what I'm actually seeing.

Also - providing parallel data about AVG MPG and AVG SPD is the ONLY really relevant information, which would help me understand the optimal driving pattern for a given route... the 5 min chunks mean nothing unless I remember in my head what speed I was driving 5-10-15-20-25 mins ago, which is .... well... needless, if the computer already has that data, but just doesn't want to display it... bad computer bad bad bad..... or just another bad UI.
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hi there. yes you are right.as you say the prius is the greatest car on the market today as time goes by you will like the car more and more and the things that you think is such a big deal now will seem to diminish in size. take the car at face value and just enjoy. its a beautiful car . happy driving. pete

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