GPS screen with Green leaves or plants

anything in the nav manual?

 

What shape are these leaves and have you been to Colorado lately?

 

I'm guessing your turned on one of the POI icons by mistake. Could be the Park one.

 

This is the Predictive Efficient Drive feature. The car will remember locations based on where you drive. As you approach these green leaf markers, the markers will turn into a bigger leaf indicating to decelerate as you approach the stop sign or traffic signal. If you're multi-information display is on the Hybrid System Indicator screen, and that blue bar acceleration guide is active (blue bar that appears when you accelerate), you'll notice that this bar will automatically retract as you approach the green leaf markers, indicating to decelerate and recoup as much energy as possible.

It's a cool feature, and has memorized my commute. But I think sometimes the deceleration guide acts too early...or maybe that's just me not used to slowing down so far from the actual stop

 

That's what I was looking for in my other thread on this feature. I tend to coast a bit coming up to a stop but only if nobody is behind me ... Or they're tailgating.

How far from the stop does it indicate you should start coasting?

 

It varies, maybe because of speed, but usually 400' or so? I'm not very good at measuring distances. It has been helpful in some instances, and it definitely reduces the need to brake so hard if you follow the deceleration guidance (not the leaves on the navigation map, but the blue bar on the hybrid system indicator). This, combined with Eco Drive Mode, makes for a very smooth ride in city driving.

As far as regeneration of energy, sometimes I feel like I could recoup more energy if I brake harder, rather than coast to a stop. Is there any truth to that?

 

No.

 

G'day,

When my Prius c's SatNav knows where it is (can take a while for it to find enough satellites around where I live), there are some complex intersections where the display brings up some lowish res. CGI graphics showing what should be the view through the windscreen. Possibly where overpasses are also involved?

Only lasts for a few seconds - once past the location, the normal map view returns.

I'm aware of two locations so far, generally these being reported by my passenger who has time to watch the display - I'm watching the real world through the windscreen (most of the time).

Log your 'greenery' experiences and see if they happen at the same places.

No doubt, some new Hungarian magic as they seem the world experts in turning GPS data into road navigation. My old GPS car SatNav unit and the Toyota supplied SatNav note their licensing of Hungarian know-how. So it's not just Rubik's Cube in their trophy cabinet.

David S.

 

Does the voice navigation give you this information so that you can keep your eyes on the road? I sure hope so because constantly staring at the Nav screen watching for leaves, and then waiting for the exact moment when they sprout, just doesn't seem safe. No more than it would be to use the Nav screen to play Pokémon Go

 

There's no alert from voice navigation. But if you're on the hybrid system indicator screen on the multi-information display, the blue bar will retract as you approach one of the memorized locations. This indicates to begin your deceleration (release the gas pedal). Much better since the MID is in the periphery vision when watching the road. So you really don't need to look at the navigation screen, although the leaves are hard to miss.

 

Are you the "Prime Suspect"?

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Sorry but ECO dashboard says you're 57th

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But, yes #1 in Easley SC

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Time to ask the boss to put an outlet in at work

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