Struggles uphill

I was hoping to hear Gloria respond.....

 

She also mentioned she was autistic.

 

I think I gave her unintended offense, when I used a hypothetical 'teenager' (not meaning her or anybody else in the thread) to illustrate a point about ECU behavior, and it could have seemed I was talking about her. I wasn't, but I can understand the reaction if she read it that way.

 

No, I conjured a hypothetical imaginary person out of the air, no one anywhere involved at all in this thread, the kind of imaginary person who might push a sporty-car engine into high revs just for liking the sound of it, even if they are past the peak of the engine's power curve and therefore won't reach the finish line as fast as keeping to the lower RPMs at the peak.

The only reason I conjured that imaginary person was to illustrate the point that the Prius's power management control ECU does not do that. It will always do the math and run the engine where it best produces the power needed at that moment.

That post was never about you in any way. You started the thread, but Higgins909 made a post in it, and I was responding to that post, and the made-up hypothetical teenager was just an illustration for that point.

 

Gloria&Suzanne:

The part about the Prius ecu computer "thinking" that over rev'ing an engine for no purpose was "silly" was Chapman trying to be funny. Car computers don't think things are silly.

Being misunderstood on a forum is super common. Some do get snarky or frustrated on purpose; some may seem that way by accident.

The part about a teenager was not about a car or you.

It might have been more accurate to say "When I was a teenage boy many of my friends thought it was cool to rev up an engine for no reason other than trying to impress everybody."

In Texas they allow people to run with very loud mufflers or no mufflers. As a result you occasionally see young guys "gunning it" as they drive by creating a noise you can hear inside a house 100 feet away. These guys are often "teenagers" or older, driving a Mustang or old truck.

It is the reason guys take longer to "mature" than girls and even have to pay higher car insurance rates until they are 25 or older.

Bottom line: It was not about you or your car.