"John Wright" wrote in message
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:54:44 +0000, Capitol
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John Wright wrote:

The Prius is never a hazard to emergency services - the HV battery is
cut off in the case of *any* eventuality, and all the cables are
armoured, coloured orange and contained in protective channels to
prevent this very eventuality.

So that's why the US has issued special "leave it alone" instructions
for dealing with Prius accidents then!

On the basis of "better safe than sorry". Its easy to design a
contactor which only makes when its energised, so any interruption to
the energising power opens the contacts - these are used all over
industry. Thus there is no hazard. But to allay the fears of people,
they issue weird non sensical instructions.

We're told not to use mobile phones on petrol forecourts but when did
you last here of a petrol station fire caused by a spark from a mobile
phone? You never have, and mobile phones have been around for 20
years.

They are not worried about sparks and fires but the possibility the pump
measurement systems may be interfered with and customers might be
undercharged. It suits them for customers to believe it's a safety issue
though!


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