Annoying features that you have turned down or off?

1. Turned off the attention driver as well. It doesn't work well with blue eyes. Seems to not detect them very well and blares all the time.

for 2 and 4, you can adjust the sensitivity of the parking sensors. I do not remember if it's in the car directly or if you need an OBD adapter like Carista but I recall seeing a setting for it. For 4, in Carista you can turn on the alarm per driver, passenger, or back seats independently. That alarm has to be one of the most obnoxious I've ever heard in a car.

 

I think the parking assist sensors are extraordinarily helpful. I had them in the 2019 because I had self-park (for whatever reason). When I learned the G5 had them standard, I was overjoyed. Maybe give yourself a bit more time to get used to them. But it's your call. If you ever scrape the side of your car entering/exiting a door/gate/tunnel/etc., you will curse the day you turned them off.

Now the seatbelt alarms are going to get turned off the second I have my first service lol. What a ridiculous "feature". They shut off the seatbelt as well as the backup beep on my 2019.

I will also be asking them if there's any way to quiet the Star Trek noise (which gets even LOUDER in reverse for some reason). I'm pretty much used to it now. But quieter would be so nice!

 

The rear seat warning when you exit the vehicle. They made it so sensitive that it triggers randomly when there is nothing in the back seat. I don't have children or pets so there is zero reason for me to consider having it on

 

Is there actually a sensor to detect things in the seat, or is it simply whether the rear door was opened at the beginning of the trip?

 

I disabled the Music tab from the instrument cluster as it is redundant and makes getting to other tabs an extra button press.

 

There's a setting to edit which tabs you see in the instrument cluster? I don't remember seeing that

There's a "reminder" that was turned on in my car when I got it. Basically, it doesn't matter if it detects anything or open the rear door. Whenever you turn it off, it rings to remind you to check the back seat

 

I can see that becoming useless. Either it gets turned off, or people just tune it out over time.

With the Outback, it only came on if a rear door at been out at the start of the trip.

 

It’s only to remove the music tab (audio tab) from the instrument cluster. You can’t customize the tabs. I really wish you could. That would have been a really nice useful feature.

To disable the music tab go to settings> meter settings> then go audio setting (has a music icon) and there is an option to enable and disable audio tab.

 

oh boy i have blue eyes AND glasses, cant imagine it will work well for me. Too bad i was excited about this as the idea of falling asleep at the wheel on a highway on a late night drive back home kinda terrifies me

 

I have mirrored sunglasses I usually drive with and it works fine with it oddly enough. I haven't tried with just regular glasses but the blue eyes was such a weird thing. Could maybe work better for you with the glasses on!

I haven't seen anyone else mention the issue with blue eyes on forums or groups. I'd be curious if others experienced it, too.

 

Yes, the driver attention signal is annoying and the parking assistance brake is too sensitive, but after two weeks I haven't adjusted them or turned anything off except the music tab. As far as I'm concerned, if either feature saves me from a scratch (and I did manage to scrape my previous Prime a couple times while parking) or from falling asleep at the wheel, they're doing their job and I'm grateful for them.

 

The parking assist brake is so aggressive I thought I hit the curb a couple times when it went off. Because the grass coming up off the curb is so very, very threatening. Prius does not want to touch grass.

 

I encountered that backing up against a treacherous paper bag of yard waste.

 

When the parking assist brake is disabled, the instrument panel always starts with a warning that this feature is disabled. Is there any way to turn off this warning so we don't have to clear it every time we start the car?

 

The "Check the rear seat" warning caught me off guard the first time. I checked and had a rear seat! I thought maybe I hadn't latched the seatbacks or something, then read the manual in a store parking lot. Now that I know what it is, it isn't so bad and on the fence if I will disable it or not. Agree the driver attention and parking sensors could be a little less agressive and may tinker with them later (only had the car a week), but for now want to try and see if I can adjust to the car rather than the other way around.

 

My check the rear seat warning only seems to go off when I open the rear door and place something back there, like my gym bag. It did startle me though.

 

MyPriusMarvin: Yep, that is how it is supposed to work. The manual says if you open and close a rear door (and none of the seat sensors trigger) and then start the car within 30 seconds it assumes you put something back there and will trigger the alarm when you next turn off the ignition. I kinda see the logic with hindsight (hence not disabling it yet), but it was certainly confusing the first time!

I thought I'd notice the red dash strip blink when the car starts ahead of me at a light, but it is so subtle to me that unless I'm staring at it and purposely triggering it, I've yet to notice.

will

 

Addendum: Now that I've had the car a WHOLE WEEK, I think the first feature I may turn off is the automatic seat retraction thingy. I do like the seat pretty far forward, but even so, don't think I need the seat retracted to get in/out of the car. That seems to be unnecessary wear and tear on the seat motors.

will