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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by JTbane on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:52AM (#50455559)
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:31PM (#50456022)
It's useful in the same context a gator or kubota UTV are with the benefit of being road legal where the others aren't. Hopefully it's easy to flash the firmware though and that can just be stripped out entirely.
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by ErroneousBosh on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:37PM (#50456097)
"Limited" to 25mph, I think they meant.
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#50456540)
That all depends on how easy it is to reflash the ECU with a governor-delete version of the firmware.
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by kridsdale1 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @03:26PM (#50458200)
Hello Claude and REA
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by ErroneousBosh on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:28AM (#50464510)
Doubt you'd need to go that far. You probably just have to do a Button Dance while turning the ignition on to put it into a config mode.
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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by ErroneousBosh on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @04:48PM (#50459164)
It'll be like the 25mph mopeds, unplug a wire.

At worst it'll be a checkbox in the software.

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Re:Toyota brand Scion is back and it's going to sell a kei t... by rtkwe on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:13PM (#50461654)
Wheel speed sensors are a bit more important on cars, ABS for one relies on them.
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