If the shift is electronic, then they should be able to rig it so that hitting the stop button shifts to Park, and THEN turns off the engine.
Bad engineering.
If the shift is electronic, then they should be able to rig it so that hitting the stop button shifts to Park, and THEN turns off the engine
That’s what a Prius does.
BTW. A Toyota tech guy came by to show us the new tech on the 16 Pruis. It will parallel park itself without the driver touching the wheel. It will back into a parking space without the driver touching the wheel.
The radar cruise will now stop the car completely. I was sitting in the back seat for this and it scared the crap out of me.
When you set the cruise there is a digital readout that tells you what MPH is set. Our tech guy set it to 122 mph. Why? I don’t know. Anyway. You set your following distance for the car in front. 1st setting is too close IMO. But that’s were we drove it.
What happens is, you are behind a car doing 70. The cruise will keep the Prius a set distance behind that car. Car moves out of the way, Prius speeds up to set speed until it encounters another car. Then slows to that cars speed. Pretty cool really.
But then what if the car in front of you stops? Toyota Tech is telling the driver “now watch this. Keep your foot away from the brake.” That would disengage the cruise and then the “cruise” wouldn’t stop you. I’m in the back going “Oh hell No!” But it stopped. Then, when traffic takes off from the light or whatever you push up on the cruise and it takes off, at the set distance from the car in front.
I was sweating bullets in the back and I think I jumped out of the car before it stopped. Once we got back to the dealership.....