Hybrids - A Cure for Speeding Tickets

Dean's lease on his car was up a few weeks ago. For the last year he has wanted a Toyota Camry Hybrid. He even tried talking me into trading in my car so he buy it and then have me drive his lease for a year only to have no car in a year when the lease needed to be turned in. Needless to say, I didn't take the deal. Can't blame a guy for trying though.

So after patiently waiting for a year and ogling the brochure every week, he got his hybrid. I've gotten to drive it a few times now and it is a cure for speeding tickets. I'm a fast driver. Now some clanmates are surely going to come in with the "women can't drive" bullshit. All I have to say to that is "check your insurance rates assholes."

Anyway - I can't speed in this car. Can't do it. It's not that the car isn't capable of speeding. It's that it's like a goddamn videogame driving it. If you get a good MPG at the end of your trip the dash will flash a little message "Excellent." And there's a meter that is constantly telling you your MPG at any given second that is constantly fluctuating. I find myself looking for hills so I can push it to 60 MPG. And then - there's a chart that shows your MPG minute-to-minute. Dean and I get all excited when we get the 60 streaks. Plus - the dash turns a bright blue when you're getting good mileage.

The damn car is so full of positive reinforcement for good gas mileage that I can't bring myself to speed. It's like going for a high score.

Next car for me - a Prius. I don't even care that I'm going to look like a hippie-douche-bag. I'm playing video games dude! (Hopefully neither one of us gets in any accidents because we're spending too much time staring at charts and dashboards).

Hybrids FTW!