Topic: Oh Oh Toyota: Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test

[Trainman]

Well, it just can not pass Georgia's antiquated backwoods emission test       

Stupid bureaucracy   


from: http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/16/prius-cant-pass-georgia-emissions-test/


Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test

Posted Apr 16th 2007 12:58PM by Chris Tutor
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Toyota


Eco-conscious drivers in Georgia are finding out that the grass isn't necessarily greener on their side of the fence. 2007 is the first year drivers of the 2004 Prius are required to get their cars tested for emissions. You'd think the clean-running hybrid would have no problems breezing through the exam. But, as CNN reports, no matter how many times Georgia drivers try to test one, they all fail. Huh?

Well, sorta. It's more like the Prius refuses to take the test. When the Prius is set to idle at 2,500 rpm on the tester, it does what it's supposed to do. It shuts off the engine to save fuel. Georgia's pre-hybrid equipment issues a failing grade because of an incomplete test.

Instead of just acknowledging its system is outdated, Georgia still requires Prius owners to pay the $25 testing fee for an "aborted test." That allows them to get a failed certificate from the tester which car owners must take to one of five waiver centers (M-F, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.) to be granted permission to buy a license plate. Don't ya love bureaucracy?

As one man in the CNN video says, "They say no good deed goes unpunished." Ain't that the truth.

[Source: CNN]

[ovr50]

Georgia emissions test? Smoke a pack of filterless cigs and drink 5 shots of corn whisky and you'll pass in a flash....

[The Mighty Duck]

Instead of just acknowledging its system is outdated, Georgia still requires Prius owners to pay the $25 testing fee for an "aborted test."

   If the test calls for 2500rpm, and the engine shuts down, the Prius should pass with flying colours. 

I'm sure this will change before line, but in the interim it just sounds stupid.

[dr_spock]

The law is the law. 

[ovr50]

The law is the law. 

It has also been said before that "the law is an as$" also....

Statute books in NA are full of meaningless, archaic, and ludicrous laws that never seem to be updated or removed. Mostly they are ignored, which is right.

[The Fuzz]

  If the test calls for 2500rpm, and the engine shuts down, the Prius should pass with flying colours. 

Emissions=Zero ....You can't get much better than that!

[Mitlov]

  If the test calls for 2500rpm, and the engine shuts down, the Prius should pass with flying colours. 

Emissions=Zero ....You can't get much better than that!

By that standard, your typical old Saab or Alfa Romeo is the most eco-friendly vehicle on the planet 

[safristi]

The Law requires ASS to be ODOR(in Georgia tha Peachy STATE) ODOUR ta be  whiff FREE   "CAN" it NOT be plainer

[EV Dan]

u gotta come from georgia to want to pay $25 for a conditional pass  (on new yaris!)
i would so not bother with them stickers no mo'