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Comments Lyle jorgensen wrote on August 20, - am Permalink. My Prius is still on the original front rotor pads at , miles. Changed rear shoes at , but still had lining left. Did let the Prius sit without driving for 3 weeks at 80, miles which killed the traction battery pak. Expensive dealer replacement. Much cheaper than a new car And all else about the car excellent.

Still is. No serious problems at all. Still gets 52 MPG Freeway driving and not babied either. Never had valves adjusted or looked at as dealer once recommended. They do not need checking as far as I am concerned. Keep those mechanics out of there at all costs. Engine runs good as when we bought it new Alwas use Mobile one synthetic. Change oil and filter at 10, miles and filter only at 5, miles. Have no major oil burning issues. Maybe add a few ounces every 3 months.

Have a Prius, also and use the same oil and filter routine. Mileage is also around 52 MPG on the highway. Both will run around 50 MPG around town. Love both cars. They do what they were designed fo and do it well. Toyota does not get enough credut for building these cars. Red in For s magazine way back that the first Prius built did not run.

Also the team that built the first cars got it done one year early. I never read the end of the Forbs article. Would like to. Thank you for your many Prius insights and hints. Daniel Eustace wrote on August 20, - am Permalink. Very nice write up.

Our Prius has 45K miles. Aim to keep for K miles. Our last hybrid lasted K and battery started showing problems Honda. Tori Chen wrote on August 20, - am Permalink. I have a Prius and didn't find any of these hacks useful.

I'm sure they must be great for those who own older model year Prii and or do not properly maintain their vehicles.

But if the latter is the case, no amount of hacks is ever going to save their car Eddie wrote on August 20, - am Permalink. That oil can't be found anymore. You posted a vintage oil. You sure that's the correct one? Everywhere I searched they advised as vintage tin can. Carolyn Tucker wrote on August 21, - pm Permalink. Having problem with headlight both not working, it's a Toyota Prius hybrid. Still nothing, help please. John wrote on August 20, - pm Permalink.

Have a Prius three that I think is great. Could possibly tackle this but not sure. One weakness of at least this Prius is the DRL lights are nearly non-replaceable. Had a stone take one out and the cost to have it replaced was huge because of everything required to move to get at it. William Roehling wrote on August 21, - am Permalink. Please be aware of a hidden problem that appears to be connected with the Prius, that if I'd have known about it, I'd have purchased a later years Toyota Prius I began noticing occasional rough Engine starting every starts, for the past year or so, but as time moved forward, so did the rough starts while driving Speaking about the hack that allows Prius owners to use the navigation system while driving, Kwong added, "It is hazardous.

It's like talking on the phone or shaving while you're operating the vehicle. But to Watson, whose company sells a system that allows use of the navigation system while driving, that's exactly the point. It's an arbitrary thing as to what is safe and what is not. Pizer is also a fan of the hack that allows American Prius owners to switch their hybrids to all-electric mode while driving locally at low speeds.

She hasn't installed the system yet that enables the on-the-fly switchover, but expects to soon. And she's perplexed as to why the button that automatically performs the switch on European and Japanese Priuses is missing in the U.

The fact that the feature isn't available in the U. Kwong said Toyota doesn't offer the switch to electric mode because of U. Thus, he said, by disabling the switch, the company is able to ensure a longer battery life. Torrone said that he thinks Prius owners are likely to keep the hybrid car among the most popular vehicles for hacking for the foreseeable future.

So was modding cars in the s. I think it's all the same, there's just more electricity involved now. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. Other devilish tricks include yanking the steering wheel to one side by issuing a command telling the car to park itself when driving down the road. Worst of all is the ability to disable the brakes while the vehicle is in motion. The purpose of the work is to highlight areas where auto manufacturers need to tighten up security.

There have been many self-driving cars made with different levels of success, but probably the most well-known project is the Google car. What you may not have heard of, though is the autonomous Google cart, or golf cart to be exact. The first video after the break explains the motivation behind the cart and the autonomous vehicle project. A safety driver is still used at this point, but the sensor package includes a roof-mounted beam laser sensor, wheel encoder, radars, and a GPS sensor.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords. The car learned this route while being driven by a person and now the vehicle is set to take riders through an aggressively driven loop in the cone-adorned parking ramp. But on the open road you do not need to teach it anything. It has no problem taking a GPS route and following the rules of the road while traveling from one waypoint to another.

It makes us wonder how the system performs when the car is coated in road-muck? Maybe you just add a dedicated wiper for each sensor.

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