The deluded statements about Prius brakes NOT being a safety issue

I agree with Dr. Troll Slayer. Prius Rules. Guzzlers drool.

Oh I don't want to be diabetic. So neither desserts.

 

LOL
The Prius club in this forum is the nearest one can get to being in an auto cult. The braking issue is plain and obvious to many casual readers of the posts in this forum. But, everytime someone brings up the defect, the swarm of cult leaders descends on the poor sob, downplaying the issue.

 

From everything, I have heard it happens only during light braking. So if you transition to heavy braking your total stopping distance should not be increased any.

So if your pot hole is right at the intersection then there will be no difference, you would have been t-boned anyway.

 

You are assuming the transition from light to heavy is instantaneous with no driver or vehicle lag.

 

It's because we are the best and we drive the best cars that get the best mileage.

 

If I had a Chrysler FSP that I loved, I would defend it against slanderous attacks from trolls, also.

But I don't.

 

If you get to an intersection fast enough to be in the middle of it because you have (less than 1/2 sec of) a braking delay (and you were already braking any way!) due to a pothole/ice/debris on the tarmac, it means you wanted to be in the middle of the intersection anyhow to test the airbags...

PS: nevertheless the ABS thing needs to be fine-tuned/fixed. Not nice as it is right now. But after 8000km I am still alive, had no accident and didn't run over any pedestrian/bicycle crossing in front of me (yes, we do have pedestrians and bike riders at crossings in Europe, everywhere! )

 

Most of them don't even drive - because they spend all their time on PriusChat.

 

No worries... Under this scenario there is a very high probability that the Prius will be hit by an asteroid which will immediately stop the forward movement of the Prius and prevent impacting the on-coming vehicle.

Keith

 

Actually I am not assuming instantanious transition. There will be some time delay. But the point is it is initially "light" braking, when the alleged phonomenom is encountered. When you then apply "heavy" braking will stop you much sooner than if you would have continued light braking.

 

You are assuming they don't already have Macs installed in their Prius.
I mean, did you see the Wozniak's dashboard ?
Any unintended acceleration will result in a hazard of flying objects.

 

Yes, heavy braking will stop the vehicle earlier than light braking , I see your point but it is rather moot given that most people would assume a steady braking pressure would result in the same deceleration. But TP drivers are not.

 

Yeah, I have a question, all you "My Car: Other Non-Hybrid" posters, why do you care? Give it a rest, it doesn't affect you, unless we plow into you, and one of us might do that, but most of us don't hang around bridges/motes, where you are mostly found

 

OMG do you mean they are TROLLS?
Now i'm really delusioned.

 

Your words not mine, I only implied it. Not all of them are trolls, just the ones who start these meaningless threads.

 

It would be interesting if some day someone would quantify this. I know some people expressed that they felt their stopping distance was increased due to the transition. But nobody really knows yet because there has not been any official testing. But that won't stop the alarmist will it?

 

Interesting! I agree. It is like there is a supreme Prius soul followed by a group of strong believers.... No tolerance for any accusation on the integrity of the soul... No.. shouldn't even discuss about it.
If there is a question of the supreme soul, the believers would challenge your qualification, it might be that you don't learn the supreme soul well. It is too confidential and complicate to understand if you just get started to learn it. If you face a pothole or on the bumpy road, don't worry, it is the soul that wants to train your capability of emergency response and that is custom designed for you. If you don't know it well yet, just step on the brake as hard as you can each time no matter what speed you are and the supreme soul would come protect you. Remember don't question the soul, always question yourself....