Is the a speed limited built into a Prius, that cuts off gas once it reach a mph, I know Caddy & BMW does
There is a speed limiter in the Prius but it doesn't cut off gas per say. I believe it is 106mph (2nd Gen) and 113mph (3rd Gen). I' sure someone will correct me.
2 weeks ago, in my 2010 prius, i was driving about 20mph stepped on the gas and then held the shift in neutral. it went into neutral after 3 second and the engine just idled. no bread was made on the accelerator.
In California and some other states, the on ramp to the freeway is sometimes only 300 feet long, you must floor the accelerator in order to get up to 65 mph quickly in order to merge into traffic. A lot of people love to have a powerful engine just to be safely merging into traffic and this is often the selling point of gas guzzlers.
Baking Power is the energy flow needed to heat the oven that bakes the bread dough. This dough contains Baking Powder, causing it to rise, lifting and sliding a device off the Floured accelerator pedal. When this jam is cleared, the engine slows down and the bakery truck regains its Braking Power. Or something like that. I'll take raspberry jam on my hot bread.
What Darrell wrote. If you're worried about a runaway, go test the brakes in some safe place. If the brakes can't stop your car all by themselves then they need repair!
hey don't worry! I media tries to make a mountain out of a mole hill. you can take a test drive and decide for youself that is there anything wrong in your toyota prius or not.
Heh, that's if there even is an on ramp. I recall that on some spots of the 110 in So Cal, there is no or virtually no on ramp. There's just a stop sign and the highway. You either have to hope for a break in the traffic (can be tough in So Cal traffic) big enough so that you can make it in by flooring it. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...id=2jKtQCEadKyk9aailol3Ew&cbp=11,44.1,,3,1.59 looks like one of them. It doesn't look like you have even 50 feet between the stop line and traffic approaching from the rear since you don't get your own lane. There are some spots on highway 17 near Santa Cruz where I recall there are intersections where you need a powerful car to avoid getting hit.
Especially since CA drivers don't understand the fast lane/slow lane method like east coasters do, and then on top of that don't want to let anyone in in front of them making it harder to merge (even though the law is that they need to allow you to merge - hope I'm right on that if it's a question in my upcoming traffic school). (not an east coaster here, lived in L.A. for 30 years, just loved driving over there where people understand the fast lane is a passing lane and you move over to slower lanes if you're not driving that fast)
