[AT] 2010 toyota camry

[Ken Knierim]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> Ken, I don't know a thing about Toyotas but about all electronic controlled
> cars "learn" how they are driven and respond in kind.  I suspect your wife
> never calls for "flank speed".   If you drove it a lot of the time the
> computer might adjust to your driving style.  At least that's the way the
> GM
> computer cars and trucks are.
>
> Charlie
>

Charlie,
    The throttle isn't steady for her either. Couple the uncertainty of
throttle position with a fuzzy logic controller on the shift points and
you've got something that's annoying at best in traffic (at least to an
engineer like myself). I've driven it and observed the same issues as a
passenger. We've been in newer models of the same vehicle and they've made
significant improvements so I'd say the factory heard some complaints and
fixed it. I think this was the first year of that "drive-by-wire" in the
Toyota models and that's usually a warning, in my books. It's rather
troublesome in poor traction conditions when you want to feather the
throttle and the car is deciding for you what it's going to do (with at
least half a second or more of delay). But it gets good mileage, it's
reliable and she's happy with the car so it's not going to change.

Also, she's never driven vehicles with carburetion in daily service (she
drove my Blazer ONCE) and I've only recently gone to vehicles with injection
(about 5 years back now) so there is a difference in experience as well. I
have to refrain from pumping the throttle during startup and she's been
taught to never do that. She's a few years my junior, city raised and has
little experience with snow and mud too. That's when I get to drive her car.

Ken in AZ