No AUTO setting on the headlight switch

i like deciding when my headlites come on. but i'm more 60's than 90's.

 

Just leave the switch on and it will turn itself on and off. There is a setting on the mfd display for how long it stays on after you shutoff the car. Believe the default is 30 sec.

 

Don't manually leave an interior light on or you will be calling AAA

 

Depends on the specific model, I think the manual details at least 3 different systems.

 

Mine is a v model 3 and it does not say "Auto" on the light control. But it does go on and off automatically when left in the On position. The time options are "Settings" "Vehicle" scroll down, last option. You do have to open the door for it to function.

Other "Auto" controls may turn the lights on and off at dusk and dawn, the option on a v3 simply turns them on and off with the car.

 

He probably meant 'Auto-Off', which means the lights turn off after you shut off the ignition and exit the car. On our Liftbacks, the delay can be configured as 0-30-60-90 seconds, factory default is 30. I thought your 'v' was the same. This is a notch lower than full Auto headlights.

Of course, he could have said anything. Don't believe everything salescritters say.

That was up to the 1980s, at least in my household. By the 1990s, we got this Auto-Off feature. This allows a 'poor man's' DRL, by just turning the headlights on once, when you get the car home, and never ever turn them off.

 

just make sure when you're new at this, you test the auto-off feature using the DRIVER'S door (IE: don't go in through the passenger door to test, like I did, as getting around the Prius in the garage to get to the driver's door was virtually impossible for me, which is on the opposite side of the garage from where I was getting into the garage from the mud room), the auto-off feature will shut off the exterior lights 30 seconds after you close the DRIVER'S door D'OH!

 

Is that procedure painful? I'd never noticed.