Day 3 - Turn radius - Need stealth advice

The turn radius is just superb. It is great just whizzing around curves like nobody's business! I met a friend of mine out tonight and I got a little turned around trying to find the place - well, that car will turn around in the total oposite direction on a dime. U-turns -t hose are a good time!

Trying to get the hang of feathering, pulse and glide, and stealth. Sometimes it seems easy. Other times, not so much. Tricky. It seems to only want to glide and stealth around 33-34 MPH. I want to be able to hang around 40, but it resists. Seems harder when the engine is cold.

So, a couple of questions:

When I pulse, is that a fairly rapid accelleration and quick foot off the pedal or is it a more gently decelleration? It's hard to gauge how much pressure to put on the gas pedal to maintain speed or to at lease decellerate more slowly and glide where I want to glide (speedwise). I seem to decellerate fairly quickly, then I have to give it a good amount of gas to get it back up to my desired speed. I don't want to use that gas... Instead of pulse and glide, I am more pulse and DOH! at this point. I've much to learn about this car, about finding my timing, about understanding how it responds. It's sooo different.

I have a better understanding of how it takes curves tonight. Best I've ever had it in the turn department.

this makes me laugh :boink:hard to put it into anything about the Prius, though. Maybe poke me with a stick, I must be dreaming???

 

Well, based on what I read here, I immediately put my tire pressure at 42F/40R and then set my tire pressure monitor device. I have read posts here by people who have their pressure set at 45/45. Is that advisable or should I leave it where I have it?