Toyota: Car That Can Park Itself Put on Sale by Toyota

In article <com>,
C. E. White <com> wrote: 

None of them, as far as I know, is disputing the point.


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of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
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C. E. White wrote: 


I believe it became totally free of government ownership in 1995 or
there-abouts. There was much gnashing of teeth over the fact that there
was no control on foreign ownership.

Dan

Dan Gates <com> painstakingly pecked in
news:ca:
 

The foreign ownership rules were relaxed after it was pointed out that if
they were enforced, nobody would be interested in the company.

Would that the same attitude were taken in the matter of Air Canada.

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In article <com>, com
says... 
You're assuming that he's thinking . . .

In article <net>,
Matthew Russotto <speakeasy.net> wrote: 

Most drivers in the US use very little of the performance of their
cars. Even on the freeway on-ramp, it is not unusual to be held up
be someone accelerating very slowly, unsafely merging in at a speed
much slower than right lane freeway traffic (and forcing whoever is
behind him/her to also merge unsafely slowly), even though s/he is
in a relatively fast car (particularly one with the badge proclaiming
the more powerful optional engine).

For whatever reason, they buy cars with 240 or so hp (paying extra for
the more powerful engine and extra to fuel it), then use perhaps 100 hp
because they never push the accelerator more than 1/4 of the way down.

A hybrid or diesel engine with more low rpm torque, flattening out the
hp curve, can feel just as strong, or even stronger, to a low rpm driver
than a regular gasoline engine with greater peak horsepower. The latter
would, of course, win a drag race if driven by a driver willing to go
to redline. But most driving on the street (even by a driver willing to
go to redline) is at lower rpms.

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In article <Uts6b.374759$YN5.251136@sccrnsc01>, <com> wrote: 

That would imply that the 2003 Chevy Cavalier and 2003 Toyota Prius
get the same fuel economy, since both use the same fuel (which is
appoximately the same fuel as the 1978 Chevy Nova got), and CO2
production is proportional to fuel consumption. Something must be
wrong with these statements, since the Cavalier and Prius do not
get the same fuel economy.

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In article <com>,
Richard Schumacher <com> wrote: 

Why would you expect to have to repair a transmission after only
100,000 miles?

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Timothy J. Lee wrote: 

Quite common with American cars and even in Japanese cars that never
get transmission fluid services.
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