Brake Design Problems With Toyota Prius

Toyota admitted Thursday that software design troubles with the antilock brake system found upon the model year 2010 Prius. The company corrected the trouble in the Prius models sold since late January. The company said it was still investigate and inform the people who had bought the 2010 model in January, too. Toyota has sold around 100,000 units of the model since 2010 went on sale in spring 2009.
The brakes is not about the unintended acceleration problem that recently a series of LED related recalls previous models of the Prius, as well as eight non-hybrid Toyota models.

Paul Nolasco, a spokesman for the company, said the length of time the Prius brakes come in felt by drivers come from the two systems in a gas-electric hybrid gas engine and electric motor. If the car is moving on an uneven or slippery surface can be a driver brakes feel a break lasting about one second, when the vehicle switches between the conventional hydraulic brakes and electronically-operated braking system. The brakes start to work when the driver stops pressing the pedal.

While the Prius Brakes issue could lead to security at higher speeds, was the common complaint from drivers to have the “feel” or “sensation” when braking into context. A visitor wrote: “It feels like the car slips on ice, but then it takes only one second, the brakes hold again.” Others have described it as “staggering forward” or a “disturbing experience.”

Toyota said Thursday it is a software error for the brake problems in 2010-making model responsible. End of 2009, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began to follow, reports, so far over 100 complaints from consumers about the 2010 Toyota Prius, the braking power.

Toyota has not yet been issued a recall on the 2010 Prius. The likely remedy would be a fairly routine software update. “We want a little time would be given,” Hiro Yuki Yokoyama, Toyota managing officer, told reporters.

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