Houston Meet Up (to See 2010 V)?

It was nice to meet Greg, Bruce, and the others at the meet-up today. It was a small turn-out, but that meant more time for all of us to do a very detailed inspection of the car. Greg even took a small group of us on a drive down I-10. At one point, the 2010 and a car on the entry ramp attempted to, uh, "converge" on the same point and the collision avoidance kicked in and started to really tighten all the seatbelts (I mentioned it felt a little like someone trying to do CPR on you. You could hear various little motors whirling in the seatbelt retractors as it "pumped".) We also got a demonstration of LKA in action. It was a bit uneven. Along curves, it really seemed to drive itself, but on the straight-aways it seemed to have a hard time staying within the lines. The adaptive cruise is wonderful. That should be a standard feature.

The "treat" of the day was seeing the parking assist in action. We never did get the back-in to work properly, but the parallel park feature worked the very first time we tried it. We parked Greg's 2010 right between Bruce's 2006 and my 2005. We had it park into a pretty tight space. We got a bit concerned at first as it got within 8-9 inches of my front bumper during the backup step, but then it evened it out. As far as I know, this is probably the first time this automated parking feat has been attempted with a Prius in Texas. (I've attempted to attach a picture of the final parked configuration.)

Again, Greg, thanks for giving us the chance to play with your new toy. I don't post a lot here (this is probably only my 2nd post), but read the site all the time.

Regards,
B.J. Guillot

 

Great story & a cool pic. Thanks for sharing.

 

Clip of Short Driver in PV during Houston Test Drive, thanks to Ggood

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Few more PICs and Clips at:

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I had lot of fun. I posted video clips on Flicker, did not understand that flicker cut all video to one in hafe minutes some of the videos I am re-posting on My Space.

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I wish I was there!! Unfortunately I had family emergency on that morning. I'm glad y'all had a good time!