Where is the control for the LASER on the front of our Prius?

Use mine all the time. Also do a clear path for one mile in both directions.

 

Typically the laser is between the male passenger's legs.
Kind of like a pointer.
Plus usually has a heat seeking function.
haha
Yes, with some make/ models of cars buyers know more than sellers.

 

The good old days for me, when ones laser had decent penetrative power.

LG-H901 ?

 

It is a radar, you can find the operational instructions in your Owners Manual Sec. 4-5.
Have you ever heard about the MiG-25's radar, which was powerful enough to burn through the electronic countermeasures of enemy aircraft?
They have many similarities.
You can zap some annoying drivers' electronic devices with distance options from approximately 100 ft. to 160 ft..
Please use it only when necessary.

 

Think many of us may have had sterility issues because of the radar location. Oh well two were enough

 

I read somewhere a few years ago that the police were going to be getting some device that could shut down your car's computer from a distance, forcing the car to a stop. Haven't heard anything more about it lately.

 

This capability exists to some extent today. I saw a TV news article last week where the technology was used to drop a drone out of the sky.

 

sharks with lasers on their heads - Bing video

 

Bet it is getting pretty up there!!!!!!!!!

 

You can actually buy a Shark With Frickin' Laser on its Head. If you attach it to the front and make it into a Prius hood ornament, then the salesman can be vindicated.

And zap annoying drivers on the morning commute? Count me in if that's possible.

 

Vaporized 10000 vehicles yesterday. Jeep on steroids got double zapped.

 

What the sales guy should give is a user's manual, in color without all the safety and legal crap, getting to the point on how to use the most used features and with reference to the page in the bigger manual for the rest.
And the let the buyer just drive away. The fact he is taking the time to explain some things is "nice" but if it has to be explained, not good - it means it is complicated....
Not considering that often they don't know what they are talking about because they are the first ones not to read the user's manual and whatever documentation they get delivered from Toyota.

And what it would be nice is some feature that detects drivers looking at Facebook on their phone or talking with their phone at the ear, because they are too cheap or too stupid to set up BT in their BMW3 that costs 40.000k€ worth of ceramic brakes and 21" wheels, and generates a wall in front of them to crash and destroy the damn thing.
So next time they will *look* in front of them while driving, because they forget that they are *driving* a potential death machine, instead of the screen for the latest FB or instragram update....

 

This is a very complicated car that I have still not figured out. My wife can walk behind the car without it moving and I get a warning. But no warning in a parking lot backing out for a pedestrian.??????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

The backup sensors are based, unfortunately like all cars, on ultrasounds. They are not very reliable if you or the object is moving too fast relatively to each other and they don't reflect well. I.e. if you are moving and the object, pedestrian is moving, you might not get an immediate, if at all, notification. Even worse if it is not metal, or concrete that can reflect better sonic waves.
I have had cases parking in my garage with wooden doors and thin bicycles parked at the rack in the back, that if I move "too fast" it will start beeping later than I would expect. If I crawl, they beep correctly. Otherwise said, the ultrasonic sensors work well with fixed metallic objects or concrete if you are moving or the other way round if you stand still. A pedestrian moving, relative to the car which is moving too, not the best....
The rear traffic sonars on the side of the rear bumper I don't know if they are small radars or also ultrasonic. Considering their range, I suspect they are some kind of cheaper less powerful radars, that work well with metal objects, i.e. cars and not with pedestrians.
This is also why pedestrian detection at the front, relies on the camera, by silhouette recognition (image recognition), not with the radar...

 

Size does mater.

The parking lot victim was skinny and fast.

 

There are two types of sensors could be found in the rear part of a Prius 2016 FOUR Touring:
millimeter wave radar sensors for Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) system and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert (RCTA) system (standard)
and
sonar sensors for Intelligent Parking Assist (IPA) system (optional)

 

We need to change the voice on the Prius to the depressed robot.

Do you really want to park there? That is a lot of work. do it yourself.

 

If they are radars, as I expected - thanks for confirming that, they will not work well with non metallic objects (i.e. humands and their clothing)...

 

Does your wife have a key fob in her pocket book? The warning you're getting could be from the hatch SKS sensor.