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Originally Posted by cody
Well that's what I get for siting what I heard from one person as fact. 
I imagine the limp mode would be some sort of liability when somebody says they crashed because they didn't have the power to avoid an accident or something stupid like that. |
Yeah. Plus, Toyota designs their cars as appliances for people that don't "get" cars... so, because the appliances' parameters are "car can drive up to 85 mph" (or whatever the Prius' top speed is), then if the car can't do that due to being out of gas, then Toyota decided that rather than giving the user an emergency limp mode option, they'd just force them to deal with the problem just like any other car that's out of gas. I can imagine someone running out of gas, then driving around in limp mode for 30 minutes saying "Gee why is the car so slow? Oh well, I'll just wait for it to fix itself." Then they still end up stranded anyway *and* the batteries are ruined *and* "it's Toyota's fault, why would they let the car keep going if running the batteries flat might damage them!"
Catering to the lowest common denominator... it sucks for those of us that aren't idiots. But then again I guess, we're smart enough to mod things to work the way we want anyway, right?