On Mar 12, 9:17*pm, Ned Flanders wrote:
On 3/11/10 9:43 AM, wrote:

On Mar 11, 11:59 am, "Bob *wrote:
My '94 Caravan with an electronically controlled automatic does the same.

What, we don't have any readers here with a toyota prius?

I know a couple of prius owners and they're not willing to do a full-
throttle shift-to-neutral test on their cars.

I really want to see if the stuff I've been reading about the computer
not letting the transmission shift into neutral to protect the engine
are true.

My 2008 Saturn is drive by wire and the computer does not complain or
prevent me from putting it into neutral at any speed.

Interesting, but the question is what would happen if the computer was
stuck in some non-normal mode and that was causing the throttle to be
open? It might then not respond to a command to shift the tranny
either. It's likely a moot point with the Toyotas because from all
indications so far, the tranny doesn't have anything electronic or not
that could prevent it from being shifted into neutral.