Fuck AI

The whole thing is a lie. My conventionally attractive hetero wife wanted a hybrid Toyota minivan over a Tahoe. It hauls ass, AC traction motors provide instant torque from a stop and the engine fires up while spinning - zero lag. 100% smooth acceleration. Priuses surely work exactly the same way.

Conservatives need to be reminded that these are the kind of lies that manipulated them into giving total control of the US government to pedophile “elites”.

I once rented the cheapest three cylinder Renault to drive in the mountainous terrain in 40 degree heat. The car barely managed to go uphill but not once I had problems with the AC or the start stop system. In the heat the car would stop the engine and then turn it back on as soon as temperature deviated from the set target. This would repeat two to three times, then it would just preemptively show a message on the screen saying "prioritizing thermal comfort" when stopped. The start-stop would resume as usual when it got cooler, no input was required at all.

Never got the hate for the feature, you just have to remember to jerk the steering wheel a bit before the light change if starting 1.5 seconds earlier is critical.

I'm not sure it's possible to hate this administration more than I already do. But everyday they're out here, making the absolute most dogshit choices available, trying to reach a new high score. I'm not speaking in hyperbole when I say that drumpf is literally the antichrist.

I agree with most you say, just two things: red car teleports from right to left of the prius, and auto startstop is a software feature and can literally be flashed to be off by default.

So many levels of wrong. That's a gen 2, maybe 3 Prius. Both of which have instant electric torque and scroll style AC compressors which run with the engine off. Excellent cars which are still good value today.

Perhaps my Prius is different but the AC doesn't turn off when I stop. When the car is not demanding power it runs off the battery this includes the AC. The engine comes on when I sit for too long but I assume that would be the case with any start stop system. With the windows are down your not going to get much cooling anyway. The age of that Prius could also do with a refilling the AC coolers if they are not getting the temp down. This is such a weird point to run on and one that has been solved with newer cars.

Absolute shit tier, even down to the "ugly blue haired lesbian" stereotype.

It's amazing how soulless things are when you take humans out of the equation

I’m not a fan of auto start and stop but I think it’s because I am older. I never owned a reliable car before 2003 so it’s pretty ingrained in my head that when the engine unexpectedly shuts off, it may not start again. I think it’s a trauma response to owning pieces of shit for a decent chunk of my life.

I hate auto stop. It always freaks me out and I dislike how the AC stops working when I stop at a light. So, I did something about it and got an EV. Bonus points, my EV does 0-60 in 2.6 seconds which is far faster than any sportscar I've ever been on, including Ferraris.

I was legitimately confused what they were even attacking since auto start/stop has been so inconsequential in my life that I didn't even notice they were randomly trying to attack something nobody has ever complained about. Thanks you clarifying, lol.

The ineffectiveness of the ad is probably the fault of AI, too, I suppose. It's a dogshit ad by any marketing standard, anyway, and I can't imagine the minds at the Whitehouse producing a non-AI ad of better quality, lol.

There are preschoolers with fingerpaint and construction paper making better graphics than this and the current administration should not be allowed within 1000 yards of any of them.

Didn't the white House literally have a used Tesla dealership on the front lawn? I'm getting mixed messages.

... somehow the US government still manages to surprise me. It even has product placement worked into it?

Not sure on the auto stop being a good thing from the get-go. Co-worker's work truck has auto stop in it. It's on its second starter motor at this point, though that may be down to the fact it's a Ford, more than anything else.

break lights

Brake lights; Right?