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The latest story of a Prius and the Georgia emissions test

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Toyota_Prius_Outsmarts_Georgia_Emission_Test'; The brains in the Prius are still too smart for the Georgia emissions test. As this article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution explains, the software that state testers use is incompatible with the Prius computer and the testers can't use the workaround that works on other vehicles (measuring the tailpipe exhaust during a two-speed idle test), because the Prius' gas engine shuts down instead of idling. A new 10-step procedure developed specifically for ... Read more →

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