Toyota Prius Hybrid Driving Lesson #38
AFAIWC, this Toyota Prius driver was long gone by the time my light turned green to cross over Divisadero. You know, ’cause her front wheels were already well into the intersection where she waited trying to turn left before the red light.
But no, instead of just completing her turn when her light turned red, she thinks for a moment and then puts it in reverse and backs up about a car length. (My first clue was the back-up lights coming on.) I says, “Oh no, Prius!” and then jumped out of the crosswalk and onto the median with my characteristic cat-like agility.
And here’s where the driver waited until the next cycle:
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Prius driver, please! Once you nose out of the crosswalk and into an intersection, you’re committed. That’s it, there’s no going back.
There’s no going back a car length and a half to get behind your original stop line.
This concludes Toyota Prius Hybrid Driving Lesson #38
Tags: 2011, bad, bay area, california, crosswalk, driver, prius, San Francisco, toyota, Toyota Prius Hybrid Driving Lesson, worst
WHY can’t these drivers seem to stop before the crosswalk? And what’s up with driving at night with their lights OFF??
My thoughts exactly!
These drivers don’t understand where to stop.
San Francisco is a bright city at night. There are no visual cues inside the typical Prius to tell the driver that the lights aren’t on. Prius drivers are self-selected – they are a sorry lot to begin with. Other Toyotas have auto lights that use an ambient light sensor, but Toyota loses enough money on the Prius as it is so it lacks certain features. IMO, Toyota should just go Canadian-style lights on all the time.
“IMO, Toyota should just go Canadian-style lights on all the time.” — I’m not disagreeing with your remark, but here’s the deal: I drive a 1994 Jeep, and I drive with the lights on all day, regardless of how sunny it is; it’s just one more way that I can be visible to others – cars, bikes and pedestrians. It doesn’t take a lot of brain power to switch on the lights.
I cover the city, pretty much from the area of SF Zoo, all the way to SOMA. Is there some rule that “Priusesses” will only jet along on city streets, often in the left lanes of streets like Oak, Lincoln, Fell at the amazing speed of 20 MPH?
Is a turn signal an option that most buyers eschew?
Don’t even get me started on watching one of them parallel park.
Sometimes you could see like three of them heading to Sac on I80 at 85 mph in the fast lane but some of the drivers just slowly plod along, that’s true…