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What Drives Us Podcast - #179 New York Auto Show Review - What Drives Us

This week we dig down deep on the 2016 New York Auto Show. We tackle and take apart the new Prius Prime, the Chrysler Pacifica plug-in hybrid minivan, the Hyundai Ioniq in all its forms, the Chevy Bolt and talk about Tesla reservations for the Model 3 as well as their proposed valet supercharger system. All that and more, tonight...

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Danny Mar 31, 2016 Read More Replies: 0

Autoline After Hours: Pacifica Plug-in, Tesla, hybrids, VW, and headlights

The podcast will be available Friday but I'm watching the livecast:
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Pacifica minivan - both gas and plug-in
Tesla - including an option to go from 3.1 to 2.8 seconds, 0-60
Survey about alternate energy attitudes
Hybrids - finally acknowledging the Prius is solid sales
VW - the eGolf but also FTC suit
IIHS headlight study
viewer questions

An excellent collection of shorts, well worth listening.

Bob Wilson

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2016 Prius v Only Midsize to Earn "Good" in IIHS' New Headlight Tests

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Toyota Prius v is the only midsize car out of 31 evaluated to earn a good rating in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's first-ever headlight ratings.

The best available headlights on 11 cars earn an acceptable rating, while nine only reach a marginal rating. Ten of the vehicles can't be purchased with anything other than poor-rated headlights.

A vehicle's price tag is no guarantee of decent headlights. Many of the poor-rated headlights belong to luxury vehicles.

"If you're having trouble seeing behind the wheel at night, it could very well be your headlights and not your eyes that are to blame," says David Zuby, IIHS executive vice president and chief research officer.

The ability to see the road ahead, along with any pedestrians, bicyclists or obstacles, is an obvious essential for drivers. However, government standards for headlights, based on laboratory tests, allow huge variation in the amount of illumination that headlights provide in...
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