Yeah for the push buttons you need to hold it down for either 6 or 10 seconds?
I’m not sure if there is a hold time. I know on the new Jaguar XF if you hit the button it shuts off while moving… and the transmission jumps right into park, which would we WAY worse for the Prius drivers if they did that. A friends dad has one who hit the button by accident at a slow speed (5mpg) because it’s located flat on the center counsel where as the Prius is up on the dash.
It varies by manufacturer. Car and Driver had a great article about it:
The most interesting thing there was that Nissan programmed their push button start to respond to repeated quick attempts to press the button… like the kind a panicked driver with a stuck throttle would do. Nissan also programs their electronic throttles to go to idle if the brakes are depressed. Those are both very simply programming changes and something Toyota SHOULD have been doing while they did their stupid gas pedal shim fix.
Bump:
Seems the latest Prius guy has a pretty checkered past.
From your link:
This guy is up to something.
Just listen to that douchewad and you can tell he’s a drama queen. Maybe he just needed time to get out of his drag attire…
is it possible that he pulled this stunt because he could… and he wanted publicity and money from toyota? maybe… i wouldnt put it past some of these crazies we have running around…
From the moment I heard of the runaway Prius story, I thought it was fake. Just like the story of the douche who returned his truck to the dealer, and they couldn’t fix it that day, then magically the gas pedal stuck when he was leaving and drove straight through the dealership windows.
The Prius story may or may not be true, but I know there are idiots out there contemplating pulling stunts like this for money and “fame.”
OMG someone posted this on SON:
HAHAA
Thats the first time I have seen a Prius interior and it actually looks pretty cool.
The video was ok.
I’d still buy a Toyota, wouldn’t even think twice…
Runaway Prius was a HOAX. (LINK)
Given this memo indicates Toyota was not to blame in this very public case of unintended acceleration, the choices available to us are that Toyota has ghosts in the machine that can’t be rooted out (highly improbable), the seemingly competent Jim Sikes wasn’t willing to obey simple commands like “put the car into neutral” out of unstated-at-the-time fears the “car would flip” (highly improbable), or that this was a hoax perpetrated by a financially strapped Mr. Sikes (probable). What would Friar Ockham say?
Battling to lure back customers after its safety recall debacle, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. raised traditionally low incentives to record levels in February. Sales fell anyhow.
So on March 1 Toyota added 0 percent financing and subsidized leases. That bumped its spiffs another 25 percent, to about $2,500 per vehicle, Edmunds.com said.
The Detroit 3 traditionally have outspent Asian rivals on incentives, while Toyota and American Honda Motor Co. spent the least among major players. But the Detroit 3 cut back since last March while Toyota spending has risen.
Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.'s average per-vehicle customer incentives
March 2010: $2,500 (projection)
March 2009: $1,565
Took a couple paragraphs from an article I was reading this morning. Proves if you throw enough money at it people can over look things. But I am sure dealers are happy Toyota is buying volume.
Granted Ford and GM followed Toyota with the 0% game.
i cant wait to see all the toyota people start to complain when they go and try to sell their cars and see they are going to be work nothing because of the recall and incentives
The technology used in Toyota’s “drive by wire” has been being used since the 1970’s.
Toyota has Stanford’s electrical engineering department as well as the worlds largest electrical engineering firms (Elcon) working around the clock now for almost 2 months and they can’t replicate any issue with the electrical system.
Prius guy is a fucking fraud. His car isn’t even part of the recall.
5 people have died. The family who died in the Lexus (The Saylor’s) managed to get the vehicle stopped on the freeway. After the Lexus dealership (who put a RX350 floormat in the ES350 they were driving) told them to stay put and someone would be there to give them a new car, Mr. Saylor decided to take the car off the freeway. Because he had worn the pads down to nothing, there was no pad left to effectively stop the vehicle.
Mrs. Rhonda Smith who was allowed to testify infront of Congress about her problematic Lexus has on record - 6 instances where 4 dealerships told her she was stacking her mats, as well as a Toyota Engineer that was flown out to inspect her vehicle. She then contacted NITSA to check it out. They also told her that she was stacking her mats. She sold the truck and the current owner has driven 28,000 miles without issue.
In regards to Mrs. Smith, why would Congress/NITSA allow her to testify in court when it was on record with BOTH agencies that it was her error? It’s all bullshit.
Lets talk about how GM currently has a stop sale on all Cobalts…
I already started another thread unless this is an issue other than the steering?
http://www.nyspeed.com/showthread.php?82111-GM-Recalls&highlight=
Just like Toyota tried to throw the US pedal company under the bus, GM used similar tactics
Q10. Who is the supplier for the steering system?
A10. JTEKT, which is a joint venture of Toyoda Machine Works and Koyo Seiko Co. Ltd. JTEKT had design and validation responsibility for the steering system.
Def a smear campaign going on IMO. Nobody I talk to wants to believe or hear my “bullshit”.
SIGH
Since 2000. And just think about how many Toyotas are on the road today. The chances of getting killed by a drunk driver are probably higher.
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Sales fell anyway… yea, because they could only sell a handful of cars. WTF do people think would happen? If you have 60% of your product that became unsellable, of course you’e going to take a hit, lol.[COLOR=“Silver”]