jamesqf -
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Originally Posted by jamesqf
What everyone - starting with the idiot designers at Toyota - seems to be missing is that you can't do the "key off" part because these cars have those stupid pushbuttons instead, where you have to do something non-obvious like hold down the button for three seconds to turn the engine off.
Even then, the pushbutton is not an unconditional power-off immediate stop, but (like computers these days :-() a command to the software to think about shutting down the engine. So if there happens to be a bug in that part of the software, the driver might be frantically trying to shut down the engine, but the car's ignoring the command.
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ibid. 110% agreement. I could totally see the off-button being ignored in order to "protect" the engine/tranny from that "silly driver" that is trying to shut off the car while in gear and driving along above 55 MPH.
Silly driver, Trix are for kids!
CarloSW2