No. The 'it' I said that you don't have is Predictive EV Drive, one of the three possible subfunctions collectively grouped under 'predictive efficient drive'. You should read that thread more carefully; you seem to have skimmed it. This is the important clarifying post. Part of the confusion is that the US car only has one of the three functions, so it's not clear in the cut-down manual what the distinction is supposed to be between 'predictive efficient drive' and 'predictive deceleration support'.
It differs from what the system does in Europe. "For one, it doesn't include the geofencing feature to identify the densest urban areas that might best be electric-only. And in the U.S., the system doesn't draw from crowdsourced information or a deeper layer of map data, other than live traffic data. Instead, the car itself is gaining route-specific information about your driving. That learning is "kept local on the vehicle and is not shared outside the car or stored on the cloud," according to Toyota. And while some efficiency-based systems—such as those from Audi—draw from terrain data embedded in maps, Toyota's Predictive Efficient Drive is primarily studying the drive force and road load." Will Toyota Prius Prime gain EV route planning smarts? The US version sounds like the EV+ mode on Ford Energis with the addition of live traffic input.
I see no evidence of live traffic input, beyond what appears to be misleading editing in the US manual. The mention is in the top-level 'predictive efficient drive' paragraph, but that is not a distinct function, it's a grouping term like 'Toyota safety sense'. One of the possible functions - predictive EV drive - could use traffic data, but it's not present. It seems that the reference in the top-level paragraph is orphaned. In principle, sure, 'predictive efficient drive' functions can use live traffic data - I think by definition any function that did would get grouped under that term and the master enable switch in the navigation. But as your only 'predictive efficient drive' function is predictive deceleration support, nothing's actually using it. (This is confusing - the structure of that part of the US manual and the terminology only makes sense if you compare it to the Japanese or European manuals with the extra sections)
Are you talking about traffic data on US or Finland Prius. I recently became aware that it is on the USA map. Not very obvious but on the navigation map on the main display there are fine lines of red, orange and green indicating traffic conditions. Not sure what the source is but it is there.
The article I quoted implied that the predictive drive feature used that traffic data in its planning. Seems that is not the case. Which leaves the US version in line with something Ford had a decade ago in the Energis.
I got to spend some time with the TJA this weekend. I was in ACC when I hit the traffic so I just activated the lane centering so the TJA would activate. Once I set it I just sat there for 20 or so mins in stop and go traffic under 25 mph. Didnt touch the pedals or steering wheel for that entire time. Just kept an eye on things. I didn't try to change lanes or anything because there wasn't really a point to so can't speak to how changing lanes works while in TJA mode. Overall a pleasant traffic jam experience. 9 out of 10.
Used Traffic Jam Assist yesterday and tested whether it would quit if I rejected the prompt to allow driver monitor camera recording. Traffic Jam Assist continued working without consenting to recording.
