Will hybrid cars become ubiquitous in the near future?

I think two basic features of hybrid cars are:
First, when the car is stopped, hybrid gasoline motors can shut off.
Second, hybrid cars recover braking energy and use it to charge the battery.
Those two are very simple and everyone can easily think upon them as a way to save energy. The great thing Toyota has done is that it turned the very simple ideas into the mass production cars at reasonable price.
I know there are more than two and faaaaaaaar difficult ideas. (^_^);

Will hybrid cars become ubiquitous in the near future?
I think it does not take long before the number of hybrid cars overtakes that of none-hybrid cars’ one. Then, thanks to the mass production, the price will decrease more and more simultaneously. Right now, hybrid cars are still minorities though, some local governments own them as official cars and not few taxi drivers are changing their cars into hybrid ones. Pictures were taken last week in Utusnomiya-shi, Tochigi, Japan.

A guy who is a taxi driver in Canada shows pictures of his cars and he gives us comments on the web. Every Prius owner can enjoy visiting his site.