2018 Prius available to configure in Toyota.ca

Another oddity - "rear seat belt warning" is on the 2016 Australian models. In fact, I thought it was on all cars sold here.

 

Maybe because Japan didn't require rear seat passengers to wear seatbelts until 2008, but Toyota was forward thinking?

I've always been appalled about how lax people are about seatbelts in Japan, we get "buckle up for safety" and "click it or ticket" drilled into us early on.

According to reports in the Asahi Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun, new passenger car models released in September 2020 and thereafter must have safety belt reminder systems to cover all seats under new transport ministry rules.

The rules will require all seats in new passenger vehicles to have seatbelt sensors that sound alarms if the vehicles are driven without passengers' seatbelts being fastened.

http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201704120001.html

Japan to require seatbelt reminder alarms for all seats in new vehicles - The Mainichi

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In a serious accident the rear passengers can become lethal projectiles, even if they don't care about their own lives.

 

And of course, unless you are in Quebec, you can't select a Prime on Toyota.ca. One local dealer posted pictures of the Prime on their website, but they "stole" those images from Toyota.com. They show a white or cream interior, which is not available in Canada (Quebec). Prime is black interior only in Quebec.

There are only two models/colours available with interior "not black" in the hatchback. You can get a red Technology package with beige interior, and you can get a white Touring package with beige interior. I have a friend who wants to buy one with a "not black" interior (too dark, and I agree). Rather frustrating.

 

Ha ha, I remember our Brit tutorial jingle. Obviously struggled with rhymes, because the came up with:-

Clunk, click. Every trip.

It caught on, probably because most folks struggled with trying to get 'click and trip' to become rhyming.

 

Correction: CANADA is a bit behind. My 2017 has that feature and I suspect our 2016 ones have that too. @krmcg could verify.

 

i have yet to use my back seats. configured as a flat surface.

 

Here is the 2016 manual. I do not see the rear seat belt lights.


Here is the 2017 with the rear seat belt lights in the upper right.

 

OK. Checked it out in the driveway. There is only one seatbelt indicator light - works for either the left or right front passenger seats. There is NO rear passenger seat belt warning!

 

The seatbelt warning alarm used to be called Mom or Dad when I was a kid.

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I got rid of the seat belt chime with my Carista.

 

BSM is still optional in Canada? I saw no mention of the TSS-P features standard in the US either.