Things I would like to change

Discussion in 'Gen 5 Prius Main Forum' started by PhilHarvey, Nov 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM.

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    It could be great if...

    1. The seatbelt warning didn't sound while in park.

    2. The front object detection didn't sound while in reverse.

    3. The car didn't text me with window/ door unlocked warnings when I never exited the car.

    You would think these would all be common sense design decisions, and should be easy to implement via software.

    - Phil
     
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    Toyota is a car company not a software company... They have always sucked at software and will always continue to suck at it. If they were smart they'd build it all on an open source platform and allow users to share updated code and use crowd sourcing to fix the problems that they're too cheap and inept to fix in-house.
     
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    Sounds to me you nanny 'Yota is getting a bit on your nerves :)
     
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    There seems to be lots of crazy sh*t!

    I just realized that the 20 minute “warm up” initiated by the APP, recycles the air, even with front and rear defog selected! It actually fogs up the windows!

    Good thing it’s efficient and very good looking
     
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    Individual pressure values for each wheel would have been nice too
     
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    In addition to your Dislikes for my beautiful 2024 xSE:

    1. Hydraulic trunk lift
    2. More illumination for the door controls and dash objects when Power is on.
    3. Another seat pocket behind driver seat.
    4. Adoption of 3rd party apps for maps.
    5. Stereo sound for FM Radio and Sirius wouldn't be fluctuating fixes.
     
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    Agreed, it was driving me crazy. Especially when I always walk away from the car "assuming the car will lock itself. How or why They don't have it or at least as an option to enable baffles me. All my cars had it for a long time.


    As for the texts I was getting allot for the same things. I normally leave my windows cracked open so it drove me crazy..
    -- If you open the Toyota app- tap on the person icon at top right- under your name you should see an "account" button- then you will see the "notification Setting". From there you will see tabs to shut off alerts to all of those things.
     
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    ???
    The gen5 has this.
     
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    You would think these would all be common sense design decisions, and should be easy to implement via software.

    - Phil