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

Falling asleep through fuller's post...
 

God, my wife needs that

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Pahsons - Somnolent wrote: 

My wife learned how to parallel park using a small Massey Ferguson
tractor. Once she got it in her head what to line up with, what to
aim for, and when to turn the wheel, she could spot anything.... even
a conventional with a 53' trailer.
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~~Philip

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Joseph Oberlander wrote: 

GM has actually been working on a parallel hybrid pickup truck for some
years now. I'm surprised it hasn't hit the market yet, actually. Of
course when I saw it it still had some issues to be worked out (as in
some fairly major components stopped working about 10 minutes before I
was scheduled to drive it, DOH! so I didn't get to play with any new
high tech toys :/)

nate

nate

"Joseph Oberlander" <net> wrote in message
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No, it was GM's way of saying, "Look Mr. California Government, we tried.
We did our best and this is the best electric vehicle we could come up with.
We've proven that your 10% fleet ZEV pollution standard is impossible to
attain with reasonable performance and range so you'll have to relax that
restriction."

It worked too. From GM's position, the failure of the EV-1 was a victory.
 

It is still more suited to urban use than suburban or highway use. The
Prius system is essentially a way to regenerate braking energy back into
acceleration. Good for stop-and-go, but doesn't do much for places where
constant speed is held for much of the driving cycle.

I'm still waiting for a manufacturer to have the courage to build a hybrid
that is capable of operating as a pure electric vehicle for ranges of 10
miles or so while using an efficient constant-speed engine for greater
ranges. That way you could operate in ZEV mode for urban trips while
retaining highway range.

Even the supposedly "refined" hybrids from Toyota and Honda are conventional
vehicles with motor/generators kludged into their drivetrains. They carry
all the complexity of both electric and gasoline vehicles. Nice for
proof-of-concept, but not really capable of realizing full hybrid potential.

BTW, The US has been building hybrid vehicles for many decades. They are
called "diesel-electric locomotives"!

George

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:21:03 GMT, "Philip®" <net>
wrote:
 

Being able to spot a 53' trailer isn't all that special. They're kind
of hard to hide.
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to make one stupid person look smart.

Do you mean to say a car that looks like door stop looks
nice to you?


mike hunt



Joseph Oberlander wrote: 
 

com wrote: 

Meanwhile people with 1980s Escorts that the slapped several deep
cycle marine lead-acid batteries in were getting 120 miles per charge.
$10K to convert the car. This was in 1990.

GM as usual builds crap. I hope the new Prius makes all of the others
sweat bullets as they can't sell them fast enough with gas over $2 a
gallon. The toyota site for the U.S. now has a lot of concrete data
compared to a month ago - and it's all good. $20K price and potential
tax rebates and incentives and... Plus the power, room...

Why bother to get a Civic for $17-$18K?
 

Which is - gosh - I do 8-12K a year on my car. 70% city driving and
short commutes. That's most of us in the U.S.
 

It will come. Soon, in fact.
 

Heh. And - guess what - they work and use a lot less fuel.

Brandon Sommerville wrote: 

"Spot" means to line up and back up squarely to a dock door.
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~~Philip

"Never let school interfere
with your education - Mark Twain"