Check out the article - it's somwhat interesting rius is Crashing at Highway Speeds feed://gizmodo.com/index.xml It's on Gizmodos website Yesterday, 01:25 PM Actually, its the software that's crashing, not the cars, but we scared you, didn't we? According to a WSJ report, some 2004 and 2005 Priuses—Priusii?—are failing at high speeds due to a system error causing stalling and other nastiness. Toyota spokesman Sam Butto told the newspaper the auto manufacturer identified a "programming error" in the computer systems of 23,900 Prius cars last year and sent owners a service notice advising them to bring the cars into dealers for an hour-long software upgrade. Can't they just send them a CD? Pop it into the stereo and upload the warez? Auto industry, are you listening?
There are already several threads dealing with this news item which first appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
I just got my Prius in Feb and have not had any problems. Has anyone said if it just all of a sudden started happening or they just got a brand new Prius that was made earlier?
