The Silence Of Hybrids Causes Some Alarm
Agent00R submitted on 7/13/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:30:14 PM
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A popular, homespun (and perhaps slightly off-color) “advertisement” for the Toyota Prius, circulated on YouTube, features a hostage — bound, gagged, and on his knees — and a cartoonish terrorist barking provocations at the camera.
“I challenge you to save this man,” the captor hollers as his prisoner squirms behind him. “Your advanced technologies are no match for our senses.”
As a Prius rolls silently into the background, scoops up the hostage and then glides off camera, the terrorist adds, “I can even hear a man think.”
Whatever else the video might represent, it is a cheeky nod to a particular characteristic of the Prius, and of hybrid and electric vehicles generally: They do not make a lot of noise.
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