Real top speed of Gen 3 Prius?

I too can confirm that it is electronically limited to 112, I checked mine using a GPS receiver. The speedometer read about 115 at that speed. I was on a long straight stretch of highway with no traffic. It drives right up to 112 then quits accelerating and stays there, I am sure without the limiter it would go faster which is a tribute to the excellent aerodynamics. My car felt very stable at that speed and I think, if it were still legal, you could drive it at over a hundred for long distances.

 

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Looks like nothing hit the front of the car. That alone eliminates most of them.

 

In a roll over the cars side airbags should've deployed, the passenger seat was also occupied

 

Glad it wasn't any worse than it was, doesn't seem like much damage for an accident at 127 mph. How did you know the exact speed at impact? What did you try to do at that speed to cause the accident?

 

Taking a light turn I got tons of understeer

 

That makes sense, you must have gone straight off the road. If it had been oversteer it probably would have rolled a time or two and been much worse.

 

I did roll twice hence the damage on the roof

 

Yes, I see that now. Still the car came out of it pretty good considering. Were you or your passenger hurt? You mentioned that it was salvaged at 180K miles does that mean it was totaled?

 

Yeah it was a total loss but I bought it back for $1000 and sold it do a exporter for 3000$ and I got 13000$ for the total loss, me and my passenger were intact

 

Leaving unsaid the obvious, I'm glad you were lucky and didn't kill yourself (or anybody else), and I'm also glad to see that the Prius held together pretty well through a few rolls.

So please, refrain from further shenanigans that might someday kill somebody else. Whereas I would be kind of sad if you killed yourself through a reckless driving mishap... I would be rather unsatisfied if you survived having killed a friend or loved one of mine through similar reckless driving mishap.

It also needs to be noted that the Dumbarton Bridge is a 1.6 mile bridge that serves 61,000 vehicles a day, and the only separations between oncoming traffic and a bike/pedestrian walkway are single-layer, ~2ft high K-rails.

 

Many years ago, I also got a ticket on westbound Dumbarton Bridge, on the descending slope right before the University Ave signal light. I was going only 85mph...

 

Needless to say, this was an incredibly stupid thing to do, bordering on insanity and I echo Bob Holt in admonishing you for doing this, risking other unsuspecting drivers, not just yourself. You're not a teenager so I can only wonder just what you were thinking. Pretty sure after this you won't be doing anything like it ever again. No offense meant.

 

Got it up to 110 on Watkins Glen Back staight. 105 on Front Straght. Brakes were toast by 2nd lap.

 

It was needless to say, and there is no point in admonishing the person. We act in accordance to our own sense of safety; to ourselves, and to others. The repercussions of driving 127 MPH while negotiating a turn are obvious to most everyone, and certainly to the person that wrecked.

I'm impressed at the willingness to expose such a lapse in judgement publicly. It takes great humility to do that.

 

I'm not sure it was humility but I guess it took some chutzpah to admit to such spectacularly bad judgement. The obvious answer to having this sort of itch is to take his car to an open to the public track and pay to run speed laps AWAY from the open road. Yes, I did speed runs on the open highway when I was a 17 year old novice driver but I got over doing something that foolish pretty quickly when it became obvious just how dangerous it was. It's a bit hard to fathom why someone now in his 30's would pursue this, particularly in a car SO not designed for high speed.

 

Who worked on your software to change the limiter?

Mike

 

Hey guys just to let you I am 17 as you see in my profile picture I just have my Facebook brith date set invalid just because and this was a while ago so I don't do high speed runs on public roads anymore

 

I have a friend in Cobb tunning he messed around with my car

 

I'd like to speak with them as I have a software project that so far nobody wants to attempt.

Mike