Toyota in the U.S.: Different shades of green

It's Los Angeles in the morning. There are four or five lanes along the highway, but in the morning rush hour, they're all jam-packed. One lane on the far left, however, has fewer cars than the others. It's the car pool lane.

This lane was originally made available only to cars carrying at least one passenger other than the driver and was set up to try and ease traffic congestion and limit the effects of traffic on the environment. But there is a Toyota Prius traveling along the car pool lane carrying only one person, though nobody is complaining.

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