cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71113049
Toyota has launched a paid service that allows GR Yaris and GR Corolla owners to add a cooling function for the electronic control system of their car via a smartphone app.
cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71113049
Toyota has launched a paid service that allows GR Yaris and GR Corolla owners to add a cooling function for the electronic control system of their car via a smartphone app.
Wtf even is this? Does the control system normally overheat? Is it a confusing way of talking about cabin cooling?
Almost every article I found about this is the same repeated drivel that seems either written by a clanker or someone that doesn’t know cars.
The only recent thing I saw regarding GR OTA updates is this article from May about a paid app that unlocks super high performance tweaking that 99% of people will never use. This is all performance mod stuff, not basic features from what I can tell.
From what I seem to be finding if you push the car it predictively calculates how hot it is getting and essentially throws a warning and makes you switch back to 2 wheel drive from AWD. I guess the way it is set up isn’t 1:1 front to back, so you are inherently adding heat driving in AWD.
From what it sounds like, if you are doing doughnuts in a parking lot, the update can recalbrate it’s protection, and make it so your car won’t be over protective.