A "park" "not to park" inquiry

Good thread; learned a lot.

Still unanswered is "What happens when someone presses Park while driving?"

I presume that using the foot parking brake stops the car, and might be useful only in an emergency when the normal brakes don't work.

But I imagine the Parking button is ignored unless you are stopped ?

 

LOL....

:deadhorse:

Who knew that the Park button could be this controv...ere I mean intersting?

BTW, great handle and great beer!

 

sounds like the park button is a great button to push if your about to careen off a cliff whereas pressing power first wouldn't get the job done as fast.

 

If I remember correctly, pressing the park button only sends a request to the control unit -- it is up to the control unit to decide what to do at that point. It isn't a mechanical linkage. Same with the other controls -- it is a strength of the Prius (and only occasionally a weakness). In the example of pressing park while moving, the control unit probably takes the request calmly, calls us an idiot under its electronic breath, and and waits for the car to stop. Maybe Patrick Wong or someone else knows how long the control unit waits or if it just deletes the request as an obvious error on our part.

 

.........and shoots off a message to SkyNet where a mark is placed on your permanent record. When you have accrued enough of these "Dummy" marks a "Do Not Permit To Breed" order is cut and you're brought in for sterilization.

Huntceet


"Work like you don't need the money, love like you never had your belongings set on fire and dance like you're not wearing any pants."

 

Moving the shift lever to park at any speed above a crawl does nothing. The control system is smart enough to keep you from damaging the car. Pressing various buttons on the Prius at the wrong time will do one of two things: 1) Nothing, 2) Shift into neutral. An exception is holding the power button, which will force a power down after a few seconds.

Tom

 

Speaking of dashboard lights anyone start the car and drive with the drivers door ajar? A huge triangle appears on the dashboard (with a loud buzzing sound) and a weird message appears on the screen. Something about pressing park to charge the battery. Why can't a simple "door ajar" message appear? I think in this case Toyota overenginered.

 

Good ! Thank you for the answer.

While most assume the driver must be stupid to press Park while moving, I'd be more concerned about a child or idiot passenger pushing it accidentally or just to see what happens, without realizing what might happen.


BTW, I read somewhere that Toyota designed the Prius to act just like a normal car, even though they didn't have to with almost everything being drive by wire mostly. So, for example, the Prius will creep at low speed when in Drive and brake released (but no foot on accelerator.)

Personally, I'd prefer some mod to keep the car in park after coming to a stop, and only release when accelerator pressed. This would mean I don't have to keep my foot on the brake when stopped. Would also mean fewer worries about my wife or I accidentally running into the garage wall or whatever.

And yes, all cars should be this way, IMO. I hate when people creap at lights with long lines and make me feel I have to wear my clutch (on current car) to keep the space in front of me under 20 feet. I also hate when people creep well over the pedestrian lines when I'm the pedestrian.

 

The nice thing about creeping in the Prius is that there is no clutch, or torque converter for that matter. It's one of the best creeping cars ever made.

Tom

 

My first three hour traffic jam in Northern Virginia proved to be a real work-out in my manual Ford Focus (replaced by Prius).