No Snowflake?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Oct 18 2006, 08:06 PM) [snapback]334870[/snapback]</div>

i've never even seen that one... all mine does is pop down and tell the temp when it changes

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Oct 19 2006, 06:06 AM) [snapback]334982[/snapback]</div>

Yeah I was bummed the other day when it was 37 degrees at work and all I got was the warning.

 

I guess they figured you'd already know it was very cold by the time you got into your car...

 

But my garage isn't as cold as it was outside! it dropped from 45 to 37 within the first mile

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Oct 19 2006, 08:06 AM) [snapback]334982[/snapback]</div>

I'm confused. What pops down and tells you that the temperature changes? The multi-fuctional display screen?

 

So there's no snowflake on the 2006????? Darn!!! and we're supposed to get snow this weekend!!! Guess that was just my lesson for today on the Prius..........

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PeakFinder @ Oct 18 2006, 06:03 PM) [snapback]334869[/snapback]</div>

Good.

 

I tire of seeing the snowflake all winter.

My other car has a dashboard indication of outside temps and it really came in handy earlier this month when i was driving back from Phoenix. I hit a patch of ice and had to gather up the car from a slide. Had I not known about the temps hovering near freezing, I may have been much more relaxed and crashed.

Snowflake is OK with me.

 

Gosh no snowflake on 2006........
Its started getting cold here and i was planning on seeing some fun dash board..

 

:lol: first prople complain about having it... then about not having it... funny.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rangerdavid @ Oct 19 2006, 01:23 PM) [snapback]335128[/snapback]</div>

snow? this weekend? in the mountains? hmm, maybe i will go out there with dh this weekend!

 

Damned global warming!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(glenhead @ Oct 19 2006, 05:15 PM) [snapback]335277[/snapback]</div>

As in "that's where the snowflake went"...

 

I understand the 08's will have an upward looking camera and with snowflake will come on when it sees snow.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tideland Prius @ Oct 20 2006, 02:45 PM) [snapback]335772[/snapback]</div>

What's a snowflake ? Do they grow big here in Texas ?

 

The snowflake was really useless. It was a case of the boy who cried wolf: The idea was to warn you that it might be cold enough for ice to form on the road. But all it really did was warn you when the temp dropped to 37 degrees. The problem is the big disconnect between air temp and road surface temp, so that usually the snowflake comes on long before there's any possibility of ice on the road. But they had to set it high because sometimes you can have the road considerably colder than the air.

But if people keep seeing the snowflake when it's much too warm for ice, they'll ignore it, and then when there really is ice on the road, the snowflake will not serve as a warning because they've learned not to take it seriously. Before the first real ice, the snowflake will have "cried wolf" far too many times.

Plus, trust me, in very cold climates, you really don't like being reminded, for six solid months, that it's cold out there! Seeing it once may be cute. But when it comes on in November and does not go away until April, you get really, really, sick of it!

 

I couldn't figure out whay my MFD kept showing me it was 37 degrees out..now I understand why. It shows up in the same spot that shows when you change the interior temp.

 

So, my MFD will tell me when it is 37 degrees outside ? It hasn't happened yet here in Houston since I have owned the car.