Yes, l can solve the problem with the door. But FCTA, that highly dangerous feature is not circumventable ...
Yes, clearly, that would work. But, when I am playing musical cars on our driveway (moving cars for access and for charging), repeatedly getting in and out of each car several times as I move each of them just a few feet at 0.5 mph, I was just wondering if it was possible to do this without fully closing the driver door every single time.
This sounds like a situation where a minor user error (failing to recognize that a vehicle was not correctly shifted to "Park") could lead to significant operator injury or property damage, so some kind of safety interlock would be more useful there.
Can you elaborate a bit on this? If I am in the seat and moving the car 3 feet at, say, 0.5mph, and then I am done and then I put the car in park, when would the user error kick in regarding have the driver door not 100% fully closed while I was moving the car 3 feet?
But your post right above never mentions the door, only placing the car in park and not recognizing that. Which is not at all my situation. So l do not follow.
Their post was quoting yours about driving with the door partially open and switching between cars. It is a situation in which user errors(not shifting into park was just one example) become more likely. Specially if the user finds fully closing the door to onerous. People have gotten hurt and killed doing what you are doing. Toyota doesn't want to be sued because someone drove with a door open. Thus the auto braking while moving with door open, which isn't going to be something they'll leave to be user selectable, cause of that whole not being sued thing.
This is interesting and I want to understand this. But I am still confused, how does driving 3 feet on a driveway with the driver door closed (but not 100% fully latched) cause other errors regarding shifting into 'Park'? Because, after I finish moving a car, I shift into Park, set the parking brake, and turn off the car. I am not a stuntman jumping from one moving car to another moving car. I understand the safety feature of the parking brake being auto engaged while moving a car if a door is not fully closed, but I was wondering if this feature could be easily disengaged. Because a few of toyota's safety features are user selectable, so I was wondering if this one was. Unfortunately, the most hazardous feature on the gen5 is FCTA and that is not user selectable (you can turn it off, but it turns on again the next time you drive the car). And that feature is extremely dangerous, since it produces entirely spurious warnings and it takes the driver's attention away from driving the car as the driver is forced to look inside the car to figure out who/what/why of the spurious warning at exactly the moment that the driver is executing a potentially very dangerous maneuver (driving/merging into moving traffic).
