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Another Toyota breaks loose on the freeway

The Prius has a "joystick" for a shifter. Tap it up for R, down down D. So that also means that the shifting is electronic. Toyota built in a limiter, to where the if the engine is over 5000rpm's, you cant shift from D to N, to prevent drivetrain damage. When the engine was WOT, shifting is disabled. So even if he tried to shift into N, he couldn't.

Toyota FTL.

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this is why you don't run a car off of a computer. when computers screw up, you don't know what's gonna happen. if a throttle cable breaks, you car slows down.
 
you can't just shift the prius into neutral...IIRC I read somewhere it doesn't allow you do that if the car is at certain speed or RPM.

and it takes 3 seconds of holding start/stop button to turn off the car...that can be the longest 3 seconds of your life when your car is going 100+mph

These cars are having something go electronically wrong with the ECU where the Fail safe is shorting and causing this issue. Someone on some news program can recreate the whole situation with the acceleration on a regular 2010 Toyota vehicle that was supposedly already fixed. Seems to me that their is a much more bigger issue with the cars.
 
yeah i just heard that a lady testified saying she tried putting her runaway car into all gears and nothing happened.
 


Steering by wire is going to be fun Hmmm how fun is that gonna be when the steering goes on the fritzz

Honestly I have had throttle cables stick at wot before I just dropped it in neutral and shut it off But with the prius you cant shift it to neutral do the the limiter plus every one keeps bashing the drivers of the cars If my car went haywire and just sped up Id probably panic a little too before common sense kicked in

Ill take mechanical over electronic any day
 
DaytonaGTP said:
just read an article on yahoo about another prius freakin out on the freeway in cali. it took a cop, a hill, the brakes, and parking brake to stop...lol didnt know the little beast had it in him...but seriously i feel kinda bad for toyota. they really are a good company. i suppose the only only way to save them is bring the supra back... :th_jester:just dont put in the throttle by wire. that would suck...lol
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...AND a spike strip. it was near san diego...
 
04intimidatorSS said:
Notice how all toyota owners are the same? Typical white collar d bags who think toyotas will last forever and they get in accidents with them all the time... GM for life
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...and who do you think resells toyota in america? a lot of the trucks in the 80s had chevy parts on them bub!:th_nanana:
 


Some of the Mecerdes-Benz sl500 and e-class cars have been using brake by wire since 2001 and saturn ions use electric power steering systems.
 


maybe this joke played out I don't know, but toyota needs change their slogan "moving you forward" doesn't sound too nice now
 
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