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Prius shuts down at high speed

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by yoda, May 23, 2005.

  1. yoda

    yoda Member

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    Hi Everyone,

    There was a news article about Prius just shutting down at freeway speeds.

    After some investigation, I noted that there where 13 complaints. Well, out of 10's of thousands of cars, that didn't seem like much of an issue to me. I figgured that Toyota is probably looking into it.

    Well - this morning, my buddy said it happened to him at 75 miles per hour!

    Anyone have any more information about this "glitch"?

    Yoda
     
    #1 yoda, May 23, 2005
  2. DanMan32

    DanMan32 Senior Member

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    Several threads on this, Danny locked one due to too many threads.
    Maybe the main one should be made a sticky?
     
    #2 DanMan32, May 23, 2005
  3. jeromep

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    There should be a TSB out there for this issue. If his vehicle is an 04 made prior to a software update then they dealer should apply the software update and everything should be just fine.
     
    #3 jeromep, May 23, 2005
  4. jsorger

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    Yes - since it happened a couple of months ago and was reflashed, no problems here. But it would have been nice to receive notice before the shut-down occurred. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
     
    #4 jsorger, May 23, 2005
  5. majordude

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    That's scary.

    It reminds me of the old days of PCs when you'd be putting around on a BBS board and all of a sudden your modem would burp and you'd see...

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    (*dhkash kjhasd oqowhlasdj = a-092we jkasd90192we ;ka918q2e jaos9087q2513 q%6912 a07127^%&^86b

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    DISCONNECTED
     
    #5 majordude, May 25, 2005
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    we all remember when connection speeds were measured in bauds?
     
    #6 olends, May 25, 2005
  7. yoda

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    I can VIVIDLY remember when I RAN a BBS and upgraded it's modems from 300 baud to 1200 baud.

    I remember putting a note on the login screen that said "Now running at a SCREAMING 1,200 bps.

    But then again - Bill Gates himself once said that he couldn't beleive ANYONE would ever need more than 640k of RAM.

    8)

    Yoda
     
    #7 yoda, May 25, 2005
  8. Frank Hudon

    Frank Hudon Senior Member

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    and the internet would never amount to anything!
     
    #8 Frank Hudon, May 25, 2005
  9. majordude

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(yoda\";p=\"92774)</div>
    That must have been 1988.

    I ran a PCBoard 4-node BBS back in 1991 or so! I had the thing [strike:e06342a048]running[/strike:e06342a048] teetering on Quarterdeck's Desqview and remember spending $1K on a single gigabite (as in 1GB) Fuji SCSI hard drive to support the "binaries!" Ack!

    I spent over $260 on my ZyXEL 14.4 and didn't feel the least bit foolish.

    Sigh.

    Live and learn.
     
    #9 majordude, May 25, 2005
  10. DanMan32

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    Heck, I probably spent a grand on my Atari 800 outfit, from the computer itself (can't remember if it was $400 or $600) to the floppy drive ($250), to the printer, and the interface to accept the printer.

    Then came out a third party floppy drive that held twice as much and cost half. Was smaller too.

    That Atari was a great machine for what it was.
     
    #10 DanMan32, May 26, 2005
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