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Car That Can Park Itself Put on Sale (in Japan) by Toyota
Yahoo! News - Reuters ^
| 9.1.03
Posted on 09/01/2003 7:16:11 PM PDT by mhking
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Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho smiles next to Toyota's all-new 'Prius' gasoline-electric hybrid car during an unveiling in Tokyo, Sept. 1, 2003. The new Prius is equipped with the next-generation Toyota Hybrid System (THS II), developed around the concept of the Hybrid Synergy Drive that the company says represents a sophisticated fusion of ecology and power.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:16:11 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:16:36 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
Toyota: Enabling poor-driving Asians to remain on the road.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:18:16 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: mhking
This will be good in all mall parking lots at christmastime. After witnessing fists fights and people trying to run people down in cars over spots, this is good.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:18:45 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
To: cyborg
After witnessing fists fights and people trying to run people down in cars over spots, this is good.Damn. I kind of enjoy that sport!
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:19:51 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
I knew that was you!!!
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:21:01 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
To: cyborg
After witnessing fists fights and people trying to run people down in cars over spots, this is good. Uh, how do two cars decide which of them gewts the parking spot?
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:21:07 PM PDT
by
per loin
To: cyborg
Just wait until the first time the sensors fail and the thing runs up over the curb, onto the sidewalk and mows down a pedestrian.
Call me a Luddite but I prefer to park my own car, thank you. And all these new gizmos are just more things to break. I'm not even crazy about power windows - would skip them if the dog wasn't so obsessed with having her window open all the time.
LQ
To: per loin
Uh, how do two cars decide which of them gewts the parking spot?Ties go to the Urban Assault Vehicle...
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:23:57 PM PDT
by
mhking
To: LizardQueen
I think this will contribute to more suburban fatness
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:24:24 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(i'm half and half... me mum is a muggle and me dad is a witch)
To: mhking
Now if the smart folks at Toyota can invent a car that drives itself, I'll be able to travel on Atlanta interstates again without my meds.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:25:26 PM PDT
by
Vigilantcitizen
(Game on in ten seconds.....)
To: July 4th
Ever been to Alameda, CA?
To: July 4th
ROTFLOL I lived in Asia and have to say that's pretty true... Their driver's ed schools are not so hot yet. In Taiwan, only 3 out of 29 were legal ;) The cars already have sensors which beep when they get too close to another car. It's actually a good thing because parallel parking over there is extremely tight.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:26:13 PM PDT
by
Libertina
(I agree with the Republicans' view on gun rights...but wish they'd stop aiming them at their feet ;))
To: mhking
Whooptee-freakin'-do-da-dee!
But can it parallel park? Well?
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:26:29 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(Heaven frowns on all things french, and democrat, AND ESPECIALLY CAT.)
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Hahaha...yeah, I have. And the rest of LA, San Francisco, and Madison, Wisconsin where all of the exchange students have absolutely no idea what they're doing, particularly when it snows.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:28:05 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: July 4th
Toyota: Enabling poor-driving Asians to remain on the road.That would be ALL of them, wouldn't it?
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:29:29 PM PDT
by
Sunshine55
(Use your tax rebate to buy American!)
To: mhking
Ties go to the Urban Assault Vehicle... Hmmm, I notice that one of the auto parts chains has starting selling shotguns ammunition.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:33:33 PM PDT
by
per loin
To: per loin
Noticed that also, the parts business must be getting bad.
The Target sunday paper add looks more like a hardware store than a parts house.
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:41:32 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(,)
To: LizardQueen
Ok then
You, sir, are a Luddite!
Aaahhhh, would that be Orthrodox or Reformed? Luddite, that is.
Actually most folks I run across have never heard the term (Ah, the curse of a good education)
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posted on
09/01/2003 7:44:19 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Big sky, little bullet - just watch out for the one marked "Current resident")
To: LibKill
An even better challenge: Can it make a 3 point turn and then parallel park once it hits the other sided.
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