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Interesting choice, is this the trend ?
Is this car actually training its owners on improving their button pressing skills ? Wow. :) Perhaps none of these buttons do anything except...
How low does the ICE rpm goes before the ECU considers it "physically stopped" ? I would think it is somewhat higher than 0 rpm. Can the wheels...
Is the max deceleration rate limited by the max rpm of the MG1 ? The ICE rpm cannot be dropped to 0 at a higher rate than allowed by the MG1. In...
Let's see .... ... in an emergency situation, "damaging the transmission" could plausibly lead to further loss of control of the vehicle, don't...
This is bad news for Toyota.
What about brake fade ? Have you ever experienced it ?
Only Toyota can tell us what the safety margins designed into the brake system are. As you hinted at in your last statement, these boundary tests...
If the engine/MG2 are both driving the transmission and the brakes are holding the wheels back, I would expect "bad things" to happen to the...
I would add "and repeat the test a few times in succession". That will reveal what the safety margins are which have been designed into the brake...
Personally, I wouldn't encourage anyone else to experiment with their vehicles on the public highways. You must be joking right ? I repeat, do...
Does that mean the "power brakes" are electrically driven on the Prius instead of engine vacuum driven ? Interesting.
Is there an engineering rationale as to why Toyota needs to modify standard cruise control behavior on the Prius ?
That barefoot test does not tell us just how good the Prius brakes are in real world conditions under prolonged braking. Sorry.
Looks like a severe case of brake fade ""The brakes were definitely down to hardly any material," Neibert told reporters Tuesday. "There was a...
Brakes were definitely kaput. ""The brakes were definitely down to hardly any material," Neibert told reporters Tuesday. "There was a bunch of...
Toyota is in deep trouble ..... if the "barefoot test video" is the prime evidence put up in its defense on this site.
Wow, I really hope you experimented in a deserted highway with no other cars around you. Do not forget that highway speeds are LETHAL and hardly...
Re: Run Away Prius Well, it's about time some party (Hello....Toyota) performs such a test on the Prius. I'm sorry but these barefoot tests...
Re: Run Away Prius Yes, the two videos show the brake can in fact stop the vehicle in a straight stop but seriously, 90 mph on a freeway is a...
