Things I would like to change

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.

 

Sounds to me you nanny 'Yota is getting a bit on your nerves

 

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

 

Individual pressure values for each wheel would have been nice too

 

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.

 

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.

 

???
The gen5 has this.

 

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

- Phil

 

1 is a regulatory thing, makes sure the driver's henpecked into belting before the car can be put in gear. For same, dislike the fact the seatbelt warning becomes this ear-piercing shriek, if you've unbelted and cracked the door open to see the parking lines, as I park in a ridiculously-small space and need to hit marks to even get out of the car

2 is more of same. Let's the driver know if anything is within risk distance when in gear, no matter forward or rear; I know, dumb but read on.

Toyota does indeed suck at s/w and has several generations, let's make that clear... but designs it w/ the legal dept having first crack. That's why things are so annoying -- low risk for responsible drivers... but even they like to sue the pants off a deep pocket like Toyota to fund their European ski vacation, reality bites (tho doing well for making lawsuits for themselves lately, re: Tacoma glass manual transmissions; Tundra turbo V6 casting sand not removed from proddy vehicles; leaking Camry HEV timing covers; our malfing, idiotic rear door 'lectric latches taking almost a year to fix, which should've been found in the R&D phase, etc.)

Would like to add, my soapbox of slow-reacting / indifferent CAN-connected components, like the shifter and window lifts... plus

a. when washing a 5th-gen, w/ morning dew loads of dirt runs from the roof back to the slot in front of the rear hatch glass. In an armpit of dustiness like where I live, this can literally form drifts of red dirt that has to go somewhere... so whilst at the pressure wash, squirt a few seconds of water in there -- this moves the dirt with enough add'l running water, to rinse it out where it exits, behind the bumper.

Well problem with this, is the dirt may get rinsed out, but some of that water enters the hatch itself (esp if you pressure-wash surface dirt off it before hand-washing). So when you open it to see whether the dirt's all been rinsed out properly... a trickle of water dribbles out a spot on the side, next to the 'crossbar' above the PRIUS lettering and will continue to dribble out... for hours. The only fix I've found is to use my little high-speed blower fan to push whatever water's in there away from where it dribbles out, then shut the hatch. This allows that water to drip out and stop leaking, hatch-raised. But doesn't remove the little snot of water spat out from those rubber plugs under the rear of the hatch edge, when you shut it. Frustrating when you've prettied up your vehicle and want to drive away, but this dribble of water's ready to water-spot the second you ignore it and drive in the sun