Suggestion Box

Outstanding suggestion! But will Toyota listen? Maybe if we speak loud enough.

I've had my Prime about a week. Outstanding car and I'm a car guy. My only real complaint is the navigation and related interface. It's like something from the 90's. Love the big screen but the lack of Android Auto and the Apple equivalent is a Hugh Letdown. I mount my Pixel with Google Maps next to the Toyota Nav display. It's light years better. Let's fix that first (and make sure we get the update)

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Could you see the real traffic info on the prime navigation screen?

 

I think my suggestion would be to terminate all the in-car apps and just improve in-car display of information like current tire pressures. Having a bunch of apps you can't control unless you are stopped is useless and having control when you are moving is dangerous. I'd just use my phone over any in-car apps that aren't telling me something about the car.

 

you can spot a toyota newbie from a mile away. all the best!

 

I think the number of times in my life I've wanted to fiddle with my car when I wasn't actually driving is exactly zero. And the number of times I've sat in my car fiddling without actually moving (aside from when the highway is closed) is also zero. I can fiddle with my phone without any connection to the car and I can't imagine any function I'd like my car to respond to other than climate control.

 

1. Tactile controls that can be used without taking your eyes off the road! At least for done frequently used functions.
2. The ability to output my phone display to the car's display wirelessly so that I can use give based Satnav apps using the car's display.

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I have a 17" laptop plugged into a 40" 4k monitor. I would never, ever, sit in my car to use an 11" screen over the 5" screen on my phone, I'd go in the hotel and open my laptop.

 

I don't carry the 40" everywhere, I carry the laptop everywhere.

 

Sadly, manufacturers are moving in the opposite direction, and shoving/pushing to be at the forefront of such innovation. Yeah why adjust vent mode via a simple slider or dial, when you can bury the function in a Multi Function Display, that'll pretty much TOTAL the car when it fails?!

 

What? If the display fails, you can replace it. Why would it total the car?

 

How about a rear seat that fits 3?

 

That would require the car to be wider, in my opinion.

 

You mention "tactile controls" - a great idea, and not exactly new - I remember driving a Rover 2000 (Rover P6 series) when I lived in the UK, and when the Rover 2000 first come out (mid-1960s), it won all sorts of awards for innovation and safety features, and one thing I do remember is the way the switches and knobs were layed out on the dash-board, they were all shaped different from each other so they could be easily found by touch - a beautiful car, the design of which was inspired by the wonderful Citroën DS19, anyone remember those?

 

Just thinking of costs. Ten years down the road, the cost of replacing the MFD (I have an alternate explanation for that acronym ) starts to rival the car's value.

 

once the warranty is up, the cost could give you a heart attack.