Can the temp display be changed to Celsius from Fahrenheit on the 2008 Prius?

[laurence_fowler]

In the UK, distances on roads are shown in miles (and fractions thereof) but schools teach the metric system for just about everything (which will confuse generations now coming toadulthood).

Celsius is so much better as measure of temperature. At 0 or lower it's rather cold. At 40 it's rather hot. At 100, you evapourate!

[DaveinOlyWA]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(timriley @ Nov 26 2007, 10:04 PM) [snapback]544592[/snapback]</div>

Thank you for the replies.... believe it or not this is a deal killer for me. I can't stand dealing in useless Fahrenheit/Miles...



[/b]

if you say it, i believe it. i talk with people every day who have all kinds of convictions about how the world should be and how they should be treated without regards to how their actions affect the way they are treated.

so, i hope you enjoy the car you decide to get

have a nice day

[daniel]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(timriley @ Nov 26 2007, 10:04 PM) [snapback]544592[/snapback]</div>

Thank you for the replies.... believe it or not this is a deal killer for me. I can't stand dealing in useless Fahrenheit/Miles...
[/b]

I doubt you will find a car sold in the U.S. that lets you specify kilometers on the odometer or Celsius on the thermometer. But even if you do, the Prius is so far ahead of any other family sedan built today in terms of technology, fuel efficiency, and pollution, that it would be sad if you allowed this one item to divert you to another car. For example, would you rather incur the costs of a transmission re-build down the road? The Prius has no transmission. Etc.

If you do find a car sold in the U.S. that allows you to specify the units you want, please post the information here. Someone else may be interested as well.

[acdii]

I always thought F was more accurate than C. Screw it lets all use Kelvin.

[Tom_06]

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If you do find a car sold in the U.S. that allows you to specify the units you want, please post the information here. Someone else may be interested as well.
[/b]

You could do it with the Audi A6 for at least the 2001 - 2004 model years. It was a dealer scan-tool setting, but for around $100 you could get a cable and a program called VAG-COMM and do all that stuff yourself. I would be very surprised if that was dropped from the current models. Of course the A6 costs 2X the Prius and burns 2.5X the gas and the gas has to be premium grade.

- Tom

[DaveinOlyWA]

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I always thought F was more accurate than C. Screw it lets all use Kelvin. [/b]

because Kelvin and Celcius uses the same scale with different starting points, then they are both equal in "accuracy". Fahrenheit because its graduations are measuring a smaller amount would imply more accuracy but only if the measuring device reads in whole increments only.

[David Beale]

Well, if you really want a Prius with metric readout, you can always buck the trend and buy one in Canada and import it into the US. Of course, that would cost you about $11,000 more.

The setting is in a menu but you can't change it. The dealer can't change it with the THHT. I suspect Toyota could change it, but probably wouldn't. They'd think you just wanted to export the car to Canada.

[daniel]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ACD @ Nov 27 2007, 09:15 AM) [snapback]544739[/snapback]</div>

I always thought F was more accurate than C. Screw it lets all use Kelvin.
[/b]

Kelvin and Celcius differ only in their zero points. Kelvin is more useful for science because proportionality works without conversion. Celsius is more useful for everyday life, because the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level are real and important natural values.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Nov 27 2007, 11:58 AM) [snapback]544815[/snapback]</div>

because Kelvin and Celcius uses the same scale with different starting points, then they are both equal in "accuracy". Fahrenheit because its graduations are measuring a smaller amount would imply more accuracy but only if the measuring device reads in whole increments only.
[/b]

Accuracy is a characteristic of a measuring device, not of a measurement scale. Marking a device in smaller increments (e.g. Fahrenheit vs. Celsius) does not make it more accurate. You are confusing accuracy with precision, a very common mistake. I have an altimeter with one-foot precision but only about 50-foot accuracy. It is ridiculous to have very fine precision when you have only very rough accuracy, as it is misleading. But that, too, is common.

Only a stupid, atavistic, and scientifically illiterate nation would refuse to convert to Celsius.

[sea-horsea]

its all good...we all gonna die....

[John in LB]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Nov 27 2007, 05:07 PM) [snapback]544930[/snapback]</div>

Kelvin and Celcius differ only in their zero points. Kelvin is more useful for science because proportionality works without conversion. Celsius is more useful for everyday life, because the freezing and boiling points of water at sea level are real and important natural values.
Accuracy is a characteristic of a measuring device, not of a measurement scale. Marking a device in smaller increments (e.g. Fahrenheit vs. Celsius) does not make it more accurate. You are confusing accuracy with precision, a very common mistake. I have an altimeter with one-foot precision but only about 50-foot accuracy. It is ridiculous to have very fine precision when you have only very rough accuracy, as it is misleading. But that, too, is common.

Only a stupid, atavistic, and scientifically illiterate nation would refuse to convert to Celsius.
[/b]

Excuse me, but I find your tone a little offensive. If you don't like the nation, you can always leave OR try to make it better. However, I noticed that you live in this country and enjoy its fruits.... So please...

As far as precision: I am afraid you are wrong. The smaller increments that the Fahrenheit scale provides gives you better RESOLUTION.... it does not provide better accuracy or precision. Here is the definition of precision from a dictionary:

1- The state or quality of being precise; exactness.
OR
2- The ability of a measurement to be consistently reproduced.
OR
3- The number of significant digits to which a value has been reliably measured.


On the other hand, resolution, based on the same dictionary, is defined as:

The fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image, as on a video display terminal.