Hatch didn't unlock with key on my person

The standard keyless opens only the driver's door. You need to pay extra as an option to be able to open the car with the FOB inside your pocket, on the passenger's side and the hatch. It seems that the 2 doesn't come with that option.

 

Well, you can open the doors with the switch on the fob while in front of the hatch and then open it.
Doesn't the fob in USA have the switch to open directly the hatch as well?

 

nope. they've been doing this since 2010 i think, to force people up a package.

 

Yes, that's odd. Is that because you have the Prius Two model? I don't see why yours would be any different than all the other models.

 

I sure hope Toyota is not that CHEAP! Have you asked the guys at the dealership?

 

Sad to say, this triggered my paranoia nerve:

A former California employee working in the NSA sent this intercepted memo to WikiLeaks:

(CONFIDENTIAL)

April 1, 2015

Subject: How to get rid of Problem Prius Customers (PPCs)
From: Iam Ijiot, Senior Marketing Manager

USA auto magazines got the memo about the 0-60 time and we have great faith in the procurement department designed, sun visor. So we will not need a pea under the driver seat as the 'de Sade' dimensions are working. Driving off the largest group of PPCs by neutering the Gen-3 Prius worked September 2013. Still there remains a core of PPCs who continue to reverse engineer advanced Prius features.

Extensive analysis of PPCs postings, letters, and communications have given us a plan for the next generation Prius:

• No faster than 10 seconds, 0-60 mph acceleration
• Purchasing designed sun visor
• Withhold advanced Prius technology from PPC market:
  • no 1.5kW AC inverter
  • no rear-wheel drive assist
  • no tow option

• Withhold advanced safety features from highest MPG model
• Delay the Plug-In Prius
• Use non-Prius sheet metal for the Plug-In Prius

Multiple simulations of the crash-dummy, IQ simulator shows these will finally alienate the last PPCs. They will no longer have an interest in forming after market companies expanding Prius capabilities because of the threat that we will release our already engineered versions.​

Well that would explain it.

Bob Wilson

 

If it's the same as the third generation, you can set the SKS system to unlock all doors and the hatch, not just the driver's door, when you touch the driver's door handle. Instructions to do that are in the manual.

 

Did I read somewhere that you can change between 1 door and 3 door SKS by pressing and holding two of the buttons down on the fob ?

 

No, it changes whether touching the driver's door handle unlocks the driver's door only, or all doors/hatch. So you would still need to touch the driver's door handle, or press the unlock button on the fob twice to be able to open the hatch.

 

If I am carrying my fob, I can open the hatch just by touching the button on hatch. But opening the hatch like this does not unlock the car doors.

My fob unlocks all the doors, from either driver or front passenger door.

 

The only thing we can choose here is the color. Everything else is fixed/standard. So I guess we are lucky in some respects.