Driverless Prius on the move - not what you think

what recall? why wouldn't you put it in park? would you leave a gasser in drive and get out with the footbrake on?

 

Agreed. WOW. I have never heard of anyone deliberately getting out of a car that was not in park unless they wanted it to move while they weren't in it.

 

The bolt has a confusing shifter. The Prius has a button. A button. It can't get much simpler than that! On my car they added a notch to the parking brake line to make the brake stay in place.

 

no added code?

 

If you are talking about a computer code, no.

 

You'd have to really try HARD for this scenario to happen. If you open the door - it beeps, and shows a big red door on the display. If you did get out and walk away from the car, it starts moving immediately and would likely run you over before you got to the letter box.

There was a recall on the handbrake (foot-hand-brake thingy - the logic of it escapes me) to install an extra clip - I had mine installed this week.

 

FWIW, I thought plugitin missed a gear between brain and mouth and thus, got his foot brake and parking brake confused. It certainly made a bit more sense then.

 

Every time man creates a foolproof product nature creates a better fool.

 

Yes the parking brake recall fix did help. I noticed before the fix, in cold temp you start the Prius and the petrol engine kicks on. And if you did NOT have the parking brake on it would move forward. Now it's ok. But the passenger airbag recall is upsetting. Toyota should have addressed this issue before letting the 2016 Prius off the assembly line. Anyone get the fix yet.? If so did your dealer put the dash back ok?


iPhone ?

 

I also had the airbag done and they put everything together well.

 

there is at least one thread here on people that have had the airbag recall done.

i rarely use the parking brake, but i have my foot on the brake when the engine starts.

 

That to stop the car shake, or the DT's?

 

No it wouldn't move, because you'd have your foot on the footbrake when starting. Starting the Petrol Engine has nothing to do with it, as, if you took your foot off the footbrake, it would creep forward whether the Petrol Engine is running or not.

 

Why reply to a 6 month old thread?

 

That's ODDDDD!! It came up as a new response on my list of Alerts this morning - so I responded - didn't check the date.

Now that I checked - it wasn't a response at all - just someone, 6 months later, responded with a .

 

funny, i saw it as new as well. only to find out i was the second poster. i think the o/p had a few too many, as well as our software. more odd happenings?

 

Possibly - I couldn't get into PRIUSCHAT most of yesterday - kept getting errors. Working fine today.

 

Priuschat, skynet, what's the difference. I blame computers.

 

yep.