Actually, its the software that’s crashing, not the cars, but we scared you, didn’t we? According to a WSJ report, some 2004 and 2005 Priuses—Priusii?—are failing at high speeds due to a system error causing stalling and other nastiness.
Toyota spokesman Sam Butto told the newspaper the auto manufacturer identified a “programming error” in the computer systems of 23,900 Prius cars last year and sent owners a service notice advising them to bring the cars into dealers for an hour-long software upgrade.
Can’t they just send them a CD? Pop it into the stereo and upload the warez? Auto industry, are you listening?
