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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? I found a a 2004 with 247k km (154k miles) on the clock. My wife’s 2004 burns about 1 liter (1.05 What is it like to drive a hybrid?

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

The answer lies in an algorithm from statistics and control called a Kalman filter. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. The problem is, if you just put a gyro on a non-moving surface, like a desk and start taking readings from it, the zero point will slowly start to drift.