A coworker and friend of mine needed rides home from work this week due to car issues- a former coworker took her home yesterday in a Prius and I took her home in mine today. She was blown away by the screens, buttons and gadgets, the fact it was quiet and was asking tons of questions, especially when I got 47. 5 mpgs on the trip and I told her that "that was not a good number for me but winter driving stinks." When I was verbally remembering some of my good warm weather mileage she was in shock. The Energy Monitor display had her attention - now if I can only figure out how to switch to the Hybrid display - reading the owner's manual I still cannot figure out how to switch screens.... Since we are the queens of "power surges" in our office (still running fans and the air to cool things down, much to the chagrin of our coworkers who step into our zone) I think I sold her on my "hot flash detector" - aka the solar panel in the roof that triggered that wonderful fan to come on when I got in the driver's seat after running. I said it is one feature takes care of that "personal summer," at least in my case, very well. The ice covered driveway at the restaurant we went to, coupled with the snow and ice in my coworker's driveway was my first winter test. No spin, no sensor TC triangle of horror... the spaceship just did what she was supposed to do... go and get me back safely. Starting to get a wee bit more confident in what this car can do for me....
"now if I can only figure out how to switch to the Hybrid display - reading the owner's manual I still cannot figure out how to switch screens...." Do you have a display button on the steering wheel? Toggle through it until you get to the one you mwant.
I do... will have to check it out when I warm the spaceship up for the trip to work this morning. Finally got the GSP to work successfully for a trip home... got the "Go Home" setting complete - at the touch of a button I can now "Go Home."
On the dash... right now the Energy Monitor screen is up and running. Just need to know if it is the right or left set on controls on the steering wheel and which one switches the energy monitor to the hybrid monitor and vice versa. I'm leery of pressing buttons unless I know what they do after my first GPS experience with a date....
Yes it is - I had appointments after work so the lady who drove my coworker home on Wednesday took her home today in her Prius... I think the coworker will be seeing green after three afternoons riding in multiple Prii...
It's nothing to be worried about... Just hit the Disp button repeatedly until you see what you want. It'll toggle through the displays and go back to where you started, just like toggling radio stations. My friends reacted the same way to the technology, pretty amazed at all the displays. Glad to hear it does good in winter.
Top right button on the steering wheel marked "disp" will change the dash display every time you push it.
I can remember the GPS experience... after asking the date to check the manual as I was driving. After the voice kept telling me to go random places I said, "oh Gawd, push something and make it stop talking!" The date pressed the "Close" button and a CD popped out... Like the Gotye song, "Someone that I used to know..."
Probably could have figured it out since that makes sense now...kind of like my former supervisor who couldn't find his readers and was going crazy... and they were on his lanyard around his neck the whole time.
The button next to it toggles between the odo, trip odo's & nothing. If you hold it down the displayed trip odo will reset.
My brother has done the same thing with his glasses. He was yelling at everyone while looking for his glasses one time. No one wanted to tell him they were on top of his head.
Took me a few day to figure out how to switch displays - even after reading the manual. Sometimes you just have to push the buttons and see what happens. Have you figured out setting the calendar date, cost of fuel, etc. That was a real treat, but gives some information to impress your friends with when you shut down - i.e. "Look, it cost me $0.47 to drive to work today and, oh yeah, I averaged 50.7 mpg on the trip".
