Yes, I located a comparo between the Prius and Jetta TDI yesterday by Automobile Mag and one of the questions they got when driving the Prius was,

"Is it a robot?" someone asked. "That's the robot, right?'

Sometimes people are just amazingly clueless....

Here is the link:

http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews/0409_...aro/index1.html