Prius Drivers Are Nuts
April 9th, 2007 - 14 CommentsIf you own a Prius then please take yourself to the nearest DMV and have them retest your driving skills. And, if they pass you, please ask them to test you again. I have spoken to numerous people, including my wife, and they have all said the same thing, Prius drivers are the worst they have seen. I am not sure what it is, but they are out of their minds. Maybe they are dreaming of a nice, calm place or maybe they feel they are entitled to do whatever they want on the roads. Whatever the case may be, I hope to never drive near one of them again. On the drive home from the Oakland airport tonight, the only car on the bridge driving with their brights on was a guy in a Prius. Then when exiting onto 9th St., some psycho woman in her blue Prius decided she would ignore the solid white line and the turn signals her Prius comes with, and make a left into my lane while we were passing her in it. For your health and those you love, steer clear of the Prius driver…you will be better off for it.
[tags]Toyota, Prius, Bad Drivers[/tags]
People Who Believe A Certain Type of Car Makes You A Poor Driver Are Nuts. For you safety and continued mental health stay clear of people who write about such absurd overgeneralizations.
Greg Ness
A Prius driver.
Could be a few things.
1. They’re more worried about killing the planet than the people that live on it.
2. They went out shopping for a car, but came home with a toy. It’s wrong to expect them to be smart enough to drive.
3. They’re furious that they actually fell for the hype and now they’re taking it out on other drivers that were smart enough to buy real cars.
4. They’re suicidal. Why else would anyone drive one of those in traffic where you’re surrounded by metal? It’s like going over Niagara Falls on a boogie board.
5. They’re just mad because everyone liked the episode of South Park that made fun of hybrid owners.
I agree that most Prius drievers are pretty horrible, however my sister owns one, and i noticed the blind spot is the most rediculous thing i have ever seen.
I have also been cut off by a woman in a prius, however at the next light when we were next to each other, she very politely apologized to me.
I think priuses do good things for the world and our environment…the just need to be redesigned with no outrageous blind spots!
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Thank you! I just did a Google search about this and I found this site. I thought it was just a coincidence and since I’m not one to generalize I let it go. But the other day, when I nearly got run off the road by a prius driver who did not use his blinker and whose idea of a lane change is more of a gradual drift I decided it is really true. Prius drivers are the worst out there, worse even than BMW drivers who are also quite bad, but for different reasons. At least a BMW driver who cuts you off KNOWS he did so. My boss owns a prius and I noticed he just doesn’t really pay attention to the road. I also noticed that the more political bumper stickers the prius has, the worse the driver. Perhaps these guys are just preoccupied with everything. Who knows but it is true.
So they fell for the hype and came home with a toy instead of a car?
Yeah, Toyota did everyone a real disservice when they made the Prius. With gas at $4/gallon all the other companies are scrambling to do the same.
Prius drivers aren’t saints, they drive like everyone else, no better no worse. You notice them because they have become an icon. You will hate them even more when you fill up now.
I drive a 2008 Prius, and will be trading my second car, a 2007 Camry xle V6 for another Prius soon; if gas prices continue to go up.
I don’t understand the hype about Prius drivers being a problem. I have noticed that they drive slightly slower, but with the traffic like it is today, slower can only improve the situation, and save lives. This thread sounds like sour grapes to me. I see a Hummer go blasting be me, and I think look at that idiot, 6 mpg, and then I think here I am showing on my MFD 51.4 mpg , and I will most likely be at my destination before the Hummer. He can pass everything on the road but a gas station, and will shell out over a $ hundred bucks to fill up. I on the other hand will not stop for gas for a least 500 miles and I will only 10 gallons or less.
You have to own a Prius for over 5 years before you see any monetary benefits from the premium that you spent on the hybrid; so the whacked thinking that somehow you’re saving money is the same whacked thinking that makes Prius drivers whacked at driving as well. I have been cut off by more Prius than I care to remember, but my sweeping “generalazations” saved my life. I was riding my motorcycle and saw a prius at an intersection that had a stop sign and watched the Prius roll through the stop sign and cut me off. Luckily I knew the Prius was going to do that bone head move and had already prepared for this. If I would have not generalized, I would be in the hospital now.
Over the past 5-6 years, my last three cars were a 911 Turbo, S500 and an E55AMG which I recently traded for… a 2008 Prius as my daily drive – out of free choice.
I now see other road drivers from a very different perspective (rather than a rapidly diminshing spec in my rear view mirror).
Maybe it’s just my imagination… but (some) other non-Prius drivers really do behave aggressive contempt when they encounter a Prius.
If you want to experience the real thrill of ‘pack instinct’ at first hand on the streets, save your money on that Kenyan safari trip where you will just be a spectator, and drive a a Prius on the UK roads and be a participant!
Spare a kind thought
Prius drivers are consistently the worst on the road. They have become a stereotype, just as the Volvo driver in days gone bye.
So glad I’m not the only one thinking that,
Prius drivers drives me crazy, 95% of them driving 10mph under the speed limit!
slower is safer? Nope, because everybody gets pissed of around them and try to pass them creating more risks for accidents.
Got a prius ? great, just push on that pedale !!! or drive in the emergency lane with your flashers on !
Prius driver act like their choice in a car purchase entitles them to drive poorly & act Selfish & pompous (prius drivers are saving the world and rest of us are evil oil whores).
From all of the hope and change bumper stickers on the Prius, I can see that the drivers react with emotion rather than logic: Never a sound choice.
I’ve never blogged before but I feel really strongly about Prius drivers being complete morons. In my 20 years of having my drivers license, I’m sure we have seen our fair share of idiots on the road. But Prius drivers take the cake. I’m glad that Prius drivers are doing their share of saving the environment, but the battery I’m told needs to be replaced after 5 years and can be quite pricey. The equivalent of owning and driving an Ford Excursion in gas over 5 years. Back to the point, I have not had a moving violation in 19 years. I drive an SUV in the middle to slow lane and am getting passed and rudely cut off by the majority of Prius drivers. Most of the time if someone signals and looks over their shoulder, I gladly let them in. Prius drivers drive like their driving someone to the emergency room. I know that this is one broad stereotype but I drive roughly a 25K square mile area for work and I’m pretty sure that the one Prius driver that cuts me off is not the same person all over the place so what gives Prius drivers a right to cut people off, drive erratically, and pretty much take over the road? If you are a Prius driver, take note of how you are driving next and don’t give yourselves a bad name. Also, just know what if your car catches fire, most fire departments are scared out of their mind to put out your car with water and are not foam equipped like Airport Firetrucks.
its such a shame that these people are so concerned with hugging trees and saving the environment that they cant even make an effort to keep the rest of us out of the hospital. save people before you save the environment.