March 1, 2010

Not so fast

Yesterday, driving through the mind-numbing Los Angeles traffic on the 10 (or the 110 or 101 - Angelenos are nothing if not creative with the numbering of freeways), I spotted a billboard that looked something like this:

Except a lot bigger. And without the drop shadow.

Point is - and I should have thought of this about five months ago - amid all of its, um, "unplanned acceleration" issues lately, wouldn't you think that the geniuses at Toyota would have come up with a slightly less dangerous-sounding tagline by now?

Like, maybe, braking appropriately?

This post written by an increasingly nervous Prius driver.
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7 comments:

  1. bugsMarch 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM

    it's tagline isn't: going forward at a dangerous pace. unable to stop. out of control. scary.
    just simply: moving forward.
    but point taken.

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  2. Your escalator operatorMarch 1, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    I just think they need to be very specific at this point. People are acutely aware that the cars move forward - they need to be reassured about other aspects of the vehicles' operation.

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  3. UnknownMarch 1, 2010 at 9:40 PM

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  4. UnknownMarch 1, 2010 at 9:42 PM

    perhaps the part that should have been implied after the phrase was: "beyond this disastrous mechanical FUBAR."

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  5. DGBMarch 1, 2010 at 10:39 PM

    Despite Toyota being an import, I still blame Detroit.

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  6. bugsMarch 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM

    lol, DGB.
    (not nice, but funny none-the-less)

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  7. Your escalator operatorMarch 2, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    N - Cool! Thanks for visiting. Pretty sure this is first use of FUBAR on my blog, and I think it's about time!

    DGB - Makes sense. It feels like piling on, but I might have to agree.

    B - I like how you're spreading the love.

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