Anyone know why CR would indicate that DRL are optional on the 2016 Prius? Here's the excerpt from their report.
thanks for the confirmation ETP, that is what I thought, but didn't understand that CR might be reporting on non-US vehicles. That makes sense if it is not standard in all markets.
Well, you do have the option to turn them off with the twist of your hand. They were mandatory on my Saab.
On mine the answer is yes. Can't speak for the others. Last GM truck I had they stayed on all the time.
So that makes the headlights, the windshield washers, and all the other stuff optional. Poor choice of words on CR's part because "optional" has two meanings in this context. "Standard" would be appropriate, with a notation "may be turned off at driver's discretion". There's probably an even better way to express it but my brain hit a neutral.
It looks like it just slipped by the editors at Consumer Reports. All the items on the list are "Standard" (included) or "Optional" (customer choice). Someone had a brain bubble, thinking about the daytime running lights being able to be switched on or off, a completely different "optional".
Odd that they include the Antilock Brakes, Stability Control at all - seeing they've been mandatory for years.
I get the CR digital edition via Texture.com (They have 14 day free trials, BTW). While I know the editors would not go so far as to rip of and duplicate any of the comments here on Prius Chat, I think they may have been "inspired" by some of them. I laughed out loud when they referred the white center console as a "Stormtooper's Bedpan". Who was it that first compared the dash to Darth Vader, anyway? If CR won't give him a credit for inspiring such an allusion, perhaps we can.
