Hi Everyone, There was a news article about Prius just shutting down at freeway speeds. After some investigation, I noted that there where 13 complaints. Well, out of 10's of thousands of cars, that didn't seem like much of an issue to me. I figgured that Toyota is probably looking into it. Well - this morning, my buddy said it happened to him at 75 miles per hour! Anyone have any more information about this "glitch"? Yoda
Several threads on this, Danny locked one due to too many threads. Maybe the main one should be made a sticky?
There should be a TSB out there for this issue. If his vehicle is an 04 made prior to a software update then they dealer should apply the software update and everything should be just fine.
Yes - since it happened a couple of months ago and was reflashed, no problems here. But it would have been nice to receive notice before the shut-down occurred. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
That's scary. It reminds me of the old days of PCs when you'd be putting around on a BBS board and all of a sudden your modem would burp and you'd see... asd^54ahyiuq jb^412askh jhak as) (*dhkash kjhasd oqowhlasdj = a-092we jkasd90192we ;ka918q2e jaos9087q2513 q%6912 a07127^%&^86b ,86*&^8 219287V & DISCONNECTED
I can VIVIDLY remember when I RAN a BBS and upgraded it's modems from 300 baud to 1200 baud. I remember putting a note on the login screen that said "Now running at a SCREAMING 1,200 bps. But then again - Bill Gates himself once said that he couldn't beleive ANYONE would ever need more than 640k of RAM. 8) Yoda
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(yoda\";p=\"92774)</div> That must have been 1988. I ran a PCBoard 4-node BBS back in 1991 or so! I had the thing [strike:e06342a048]running[/strike:e06342a048] teetering on Quarterdeck's Desqview and remember spending $1K on a single gigabite (as in 1GB) Fuji SCSI hard drive to support the "binaries!" Ack! I spent over $260 on my ZyXEL 14.4 and didn't feel the least bit foolish. Sigh. Live and learn.
Heck, I probably spent a grand on my Atari 800 outfit, from the computer itself (can't remember if it was $400 or $600) to the floppy drive ($250), to the printer, and the interface to accept the printer. Then came out a third party floppy drive that held twice as much and cost half. Was smaller too. That Atari was a great machine for what it was.
