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— IIHS (@IIHS_autosafety) September 1, 2016

Looking for a safer way to get your growing family around Galveston? Consider for a moment a new Toyota Prius.

Wait, wait! Don't laugh! We know it's small -- a proud member of the compact car segment. Yet this little-hybrid-that-could is designed with safety, and the convenience of parents and guardians with small children in mind.

The IIHS already awarded the 2016 Prius with its highest overall safety honor...

Even if you're a driver who prides yourself on your expert parallel parking skills, when you're running late to an event or are faced with a particularly tight parking spot squeeze, having an extra set of virtual eyes on your side is never a bad thing.

In fact, when driving the new Toyota Prius with available intelligent parking assist with intelligent clearance sonar, you won't just enjoy an extra set of eyes, but the Prius is ready to lend a helping hand, as well.

When you were in high school how many of your fellow classmates said that they wanted to travel the world? It is a big goal and one that many of us have, yet how many of us actually do it?

It’s not that we don’t have good intentions. Somewhere along the way though, jobs, families and other activities of daily life take up the time and money needed for such an adventure.

For those of us who aren’t traveling, at least currently, it’s good to hear about adventurous souls like the Vaga Brothers. Recently Toyota challenged…

Toyota vehicles are reliable. It is well known. Just Google "most reliable car," and you'll find lists populated with Toyota vehicles in their top-ranking spots.

Surely that legendary reliability doesn't apply to our hybrid models, does it?

Far from finicky new technology, hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius can possess the same level of endurance into high mileage as an all-gas engine. The biggest concern we hear about hybrids is that the battery could break down, and it's an expensive replacement if it does.

That's true, but unlike a normal car battery, hybrid batteries are meant…

As the disclaimer fine-print is quick to remark: do not use raw lemonade as fuel. It needs to be processed into hydrogen.

Hydrogen can actually be used to power an internal combustion engine, but it is most efficient when used in a fuel cell vehicle (FCV) like the 2016 Toyota Mirai.

Will cars really be fueled by lemonade? Probably not lemons-- but hydrogen fuel is made by running an electric current through water. Water is actually not a very good conductor of electricity, so electrolytes must be added to the water, like sodium, or... lemon juice.

The point is, we…