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I'm not defending Prius drivers here, though I used to be one. I will say, by way of mitigation, that when you have real-time information on the energy required
by pwinnski 7y ago
I'm not defending Prius drivers here, though I used to be one. I will say, by way of mitigation, that when you have real-time information on the energy required to overcome inertia, coming to a stop is painful. If every car had the dashboard indicators a Prius does, we would have a lot of public pressure to replace stop signs and stoplights with traffic circles/roundabouts.
That said, come to a freaking stop.
- gnicholas 7y agoI drive a plugin hybrid so get what you mean. But there's regenerative braking, which mitigates the perceived startup effect you refer to. Also, if a bunch of cars make rolling stops, then the vehicles behind them keep crawling along the whole time (instead of coming to a complete stop and having the engine cut). I wonder what the cumulative effect is?
- pwinnski 7y agoThe Prius doesn't have an indicator of how much mitigation regenerative braking provides, but my Fiat 500e does. It's lower than I would have hoped. I get it, but I'm watching the display read -8KW when braking, but 40KW when accelerating from a stop. Acceleration takes longer, too. A complete stop is even more painful now!