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Not according to these articles:

http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000143060629/

http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/adv_tech/400_f cv/dc_demo_050703.html

And they are not in sunny california, too bad for them.

(c) your daily commute is not too long, so the price markup you pay for a hybrid does not translate into long-term gas savings.

It wasn't too long ago that Auto Bild magazine drove a Lexus RX400 petrol-electric hybrid against a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz ML320 CDI coast-to-coast across the USA. (http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000417056376/)

The diesel proved to be more efficient than the petrol-hybrid, by more than 3mpg.

Perhaps diesel-electric hybrid cars are the way to go. Plus you could run them on dead cats (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14/23552 23&tid=133&tid=126)

And for the record, I work from home, only going into the office on average about 1 day a month. When I do go in, I usually carpool to the park-and-ride, take the bus to catch the ferry and then walk the rest of the way to my office.

I can't understand how people on slashdot can be so short-sighted as to be angry that the US government is doing something to protect US companies. I know the Bush administration is hated (and rightly so for many things) but to simply dismiss this measure as government protecting their corporate patrons is shallow slashdot thinking at its worst. I understand that IP protection has become too restrictive in some areas (music and movies) and abused in others (patents) but China's abuse is just as bad in the other direction. Americans are employed by those corporations. Americans own shares in those corporations. Americans who aren't employees or shareholders still benefit from the taxes paid by those corporations.

China already has advantages in pricing because of their low labor and land costs (and the fact that they apparently don't have to follow labor or environmental laws), it is ridiculous for the US and other countries to just let China steal designs, patents, and other intellectual property. Letting a foreign competitor steal your designs and undercut you is economic suicide (we're already on that route, there's no need to hit the gas). It's another form of corporate welfare. China shouldn't get anymore help from us to slash our throats. Some slashdot folks have bandied the term China-bashing as a ready catch-all for any criticism of China but much of that criticims is very well deserved.

The Chinese stole and copied the entire design of cars and undercuts their foreign competitors. Consider http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000503040395/ The Chinese company even had the audacity to use a similar name as the car they ripped-off wholesale. Another Chinese car company did the same to GM. It's not only American companies they've stolen from, Hitachi and Samsung have launched high profile suits against their OEM suppliers for stealing designs.

Unfortunately, this move is too little too late. The US has to adapt even more to compete in this era of globalization.

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Gee, I don't think I've ever seen that incredibly hilarious pun anywhere else...

Trying to infect Prius with a Symbian "virus" is like trying to infect a tree with a choc chip cookie . Hey I can come up with a better one - it's like trying to infect shampoo with a book on eating disorders (now go picture that in your head for a second). But this is so sweet - it takes one dumb kid with too much time on their hands and one even dumber kid to moderate at voila! you get slashdot "news".

Whenever thousands of Prius owners and millions of concerned drivers hear a rumor about some virus that can infect cars, it is always cause for concern. I had heard about this before, and was actually relieved (not that much, but still) when I read this story. And, even if I had read the post you referenced, I would still be glad that a statement made by ArrayIndexOutOfBound on a tech news site was validated by F-Secure, a company that _knows_ viruses.

Still, I (a reasonably intelligent and informed /. user) personally have no knowledge of how the bluetooth virus everyone has been talking about works. I know nothing of what OS the Prius uses and how it compares with certain cell phones. I thought this was news.

Lighten up, jerk.

Sorry I can't find the article on line. I have Popular Mechanic magazine here and basically Jay Leno say's Ferrari's clutches suck requiring a new one ($5,000 a pop) after only about 5,000 miles. So perhaps you should say Apple is more like Porsche.

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Posted Feb 17, 2005, 10:43 AM ET by Jon F.

Jay is definitely hardcore. He has an uber car collect though he's still concerned with economy. He's been pretty public in saying that he doesn't like to challenge people with is Lambo (4wd car) because "I could take him, but i don't want to waste a $5000 clutch". He states it in the article, and he's said it a few other times. A lot of people can afford to own a Ferrari, not all of them can afford the maintenance. Jay can, but he'd rather improves his collection and drive his cars rather than see them in the shop.

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