general problems of the 2017 Toyota Prius

On 10/16/23 I was turning slowly into a parking spot and my car suddenly accelerated without my pressing the accelerator. I slammed on the break and the car stopped. It was frightening because I could have hit someone or something but luckily the car stopped before that happened. I believe that this was a malfunction of the accelerator. This has not been checked or reported to anyone yet but I will be calling Toyota to have it checked. There have been no warning messages.

I had just changed from the right-hand lane to the center lane of a six-lane expressway when my vehicle lost power and I was able to move over to the right hand shoulder of the road. The accelerator pedal did not work and I just coasted to the side of the road. I noticed that a red warning saying something about radar flashed on the instrument panel when this happened. I turned off the vehicle and tried to restart it, but nothing happened. I then texted the person who was expecting me and explained the problem. Since I had just taken the car to the dealer for its regular 40,000 mile service four days earlier, I intended to call my dealer to ask them what to do. All of this took about 10 minutes with the engine turned off. Before doing this, I again tried to restart it. It started and I inched it forward on the shoulder of the road. Since I did not feel safe parked on the shoulder, I merged into traffic and took it to another Toyota dealer. They said that they could not look at my vehicle to diagnose what might be wrong because all their technicians were going home at 4 pm. I drove to my son's house and he suggested that I report this to you. Something similar happened to him when he was driving this same vehicle about six month ago. He was driving on a city street, did not notice any dashboard warning, and took it to this same dealer. They were not able find anything wrong. I felt I should report this since this is the second time this vehicle suddenly lost power. My incident happened when I was driving at expressway speed and could have caused a serious accident had I not been able to coast to the shoulder of the road.

For the second time (first in 2019) I was seconds and maybe two feet from stopping the car to park when, with my foot on the brake, the car suddenly and without warning lunged forward at what seemed like full throttle. The first "crash" was in my driveway. The force was shocking and took off the front of the car. I insisted Toyota investigate and they ultimately denied any liability. After the car was allegedly repaired, I started noticing another phenomenon: every time I would slow down to brake--approaching an intersection or stop sign, etc. --the car would briefly lunge forward before the brakes engaged to stop the car. I reported this to the dealer 2-3 times and each time I was assured that this was "normal" for a hybrid transitioning from gas to electric at a lower speed. Two weeks ago, with a friend in the car, I was pulling into a parking space, foot on the brake and about to stop, when the same thing occurred: without warning, the car lunged forward, at what seemed like full throttle, and crashed into a low concrete wall. Had it been seconds later, we would have had our seatbelts off and gone into the windshield. There were injuries. Fyi, I have a pretty much perfect driving record and log thousands of miles each year. I had zero problems with the Prius I owned prior to this one. I will never drive this car again.

Tl the contact owned a 2017 Toyota Prius. While the contact was reversing the vehicle into a parking lot, it accelerated without warning. The contact attempted to depress the brake pedal, but it failed to engage and caused the vehicle to crash into a tree. All the air bags deployed. The contact did not engage the emergency brake. The contact and passenger sustained minor injuries and received medical attention. A police report was not filed. The contact's insurance company towed the vehicle to a lot and deemed it a total loss. The dealer and manufacturer were not contacted. The cause of the failures was not determined. The failure mileage was approximately 13,850.

Tl- the contact owned 2017 Toyota Prius c. The contact stated while driving 50 mph, when the vehicle began to accelerator own it's own. The contact stated when depressing on the brake pedal, it failed to function and made a right turn, causing to hit a curve and crashing the front of the vehicle into some brushes. All of the air bags deployed. The contact sustained superficial injuries on his knees and neck injuries. An ambulance took the contact to the er to seek medical attention. A police report was filed. The vehicle was undriveable and destroyed. The vehicle was towed impound lot. The contact called local dealer westbury Toyota located at 1121 old country rd, westbury, NY 11590, (516) 272-4499, were made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired as of yet. The manufacturer has been informed of failure. The failure mileage was 21,000. Dp.

Car was on 2 lane blacktop in 40 mph zone driving apx 35 mph, a female, responsible owner/driver age 79 was driving when suddenly,without any warning,comes to near halt in road and pulls/hard to right hand side of shoulder off the road. Driver had no control over direction or speed before finally able to stop car on top of ditch. Driver was able to get car to stall/stop engine before reaching ditch and possibly a turnover. Driver had never been so fearful in her life,had she been unable to stop car it would have driven her over. Reported situation to local Toyota dealership and they stated they could not;t find anything wrong with car sending driver back out on road with car, this is very serious situation. Thankful she was on small country ioad and not on busy hwy or this car would have "pulled/lead" her into other traffic, or worse, a sidewalk full of people and or children. She had no control of car for what seemed like a full minute or more.

The vehicle started normally but when I reached about two blocks from my house, the Prius started to act as if the electric motors were not engaging. The engine did not engage either and the gas pedal was unresponsive. The first time this occurred, I was stuck in the middle of a 4-way intersection until I shut down the vehicle and restarted it. After I restarted the Prius, it continued behaving erratically. It sounded and felt like the gas motor had engaged but the electric motor had not. It also felt like the transmission was slipping/not engaging and I had to rev the motor to get the transmission to engage (which it did with a kick like it was being put into gear). This has happened 3 times so far. I had a passenger in the vehicle on the last incident. I have taken the vehicle into the dealership 3 times, but they are unable to find any issues with the vehicle. I reached out to Toyota to see if they could address the issue, but they said that their field tech was unable to find any problem. I am worried that this car will fail in traffic and cause an accident. The incident dates are June 20, July 2 and July 27, 2018. The only indication that something was abnormal on July the 27th. Was a lower mpg reading on my display. Other than that, there was no warning or error codes displayed.

The contact owns a 2017 Toyota Prius. While the vehicle was parked, it rolled without warning. The contact was able to catch up with the vehicle before it struck a police vehicle. The officer gave the contact a warning. In addition, the vehicle accelerated on its own intermittently. The local dealer (elmore Toyota, 15300 beach blvd, westminister, CA, 92683) informed the contact that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16v741000 (service brakes), and recommended he schedule an appointment for diagnostic testing. The vehicle was not diagnosed due to the diagnostic fee. The manufacturer was contacted and provided case number: 1709193209. The manufacturer confirmed that the vehicle was not included in the recall, and that there would be a diagnostic charge. The failure mileage was approximately 15,000.