Most Obscure Gen 4 Facts (way out there)

I never use "Hybrid Synergy Display" either - it doesn't give as good an idea of what's going on, and in some situations is inaccurate (the EV light is very approximately an indication of what's going on). That said, I rarely look over there anyway, but to the HUD.

This is much better than the Hybrid Display:



If I've got passengers in the car, I have it displayed. They're fascinated if they haven't been in a PRIUS before.

 

I find if I display and watch the Energy Monitor while driving, I'm in serious danger of going off the road.

 

Sometimes I think I can feel the ICE running, or the Hybrid SI in the HUD is showing that it's using 3l/100 - downhill - a glance across to the Energy Monitor shows what's really happening.

 

Don't know why, but my grandson and son in law were silently unimpressed, which quite deflated me for a while.

 

and did you notice they spin backwards when you're reversing (same as on Gen 3).

 

I must be blind! Haven't noticed either. Revolutionary!

 

I too have the Hybrid Synergy Display on for passengers who ride in my Prius. I never look at it but they are fascinated by it. I liken it to a box for idiots with lights that flash that do nothing other than simulating a high tech device typically a functioning computer but one that does nothing.

The display they are most fascinated with is the MPG which all passengers seem to notice. Usually it says somewhere between 55-59MPG most typically 57 or 58MPG's. I have had discussions with other Gen4 Prius owners. When I tell them my (MPG) mileage, the conversation quickly ends because they lack the driving skill to achieve what most PriusChat users achieve in mileage.

 

My new 2017 told me the same thing! I still don't know why.

 

I can't tell you how disappointed I was to learn that symbol didn't, in fact, mean my prius came equipped with a coffee maker.

 

I wonder if "at Prius team" will take note of that?

 

You forgot the secret handshake for @Prius Team and you forgot the smiley.

 

Hmm, didn't want to poke the bear.

 

You have one of its cubs!!
Somebody needs to wake the sleeping bear.

 

Everybody talks about poking the bear, waking the bear but they forget about the tiger. A solitary hunter that lives in both snow climates and very warm climates.

 

No tigers or bears in my back yard, though I have glimpsed one or two cougars in the area.

 

We have squirrels and deer as pests here.
Coyotes bobcats and an occasional bear as predators.
I though the dealers were the predators we normally discuss here.

 

We just have hoodies & junkies.

 

It has a few screens that good drivers are unlikely to ever see.

I mentioned the one you get when you are driving without keeping your hands on the wheel.

There are more, and I am bent on finding them all.

Today I learned that if you depress the accelerator and brake pedals at the same time while in drive, a special screen will appear telling you that is exactly what you are doing.

Good to know, right?