The company based in Aichi (central Japan) reported that the fault has not caused any accidents or injuries to occupants of vehicles.
The bug affects units manufactured between May 2010 and November 2014 models of the Prius + (marketed as Prius V and Prius Alpha in certain markets) and hybrid Auris.
Of these, 160,000 were sold in Europe, 120,000 in North America and 340,000 in Japan while the remaining 5,000 were sold in Africa and other markets.
The current software configuration of these cars can cause overheating of transistors.
If they are damaged this can cause, first, the lighting of several warning lights on the dashboard, according to Toyota.
In most cases the vehicle go into a “safe mode”, which reduces the driving force of the car and drive it only allows for a limited distance.
In the most extreme case, Toyota says the hybrid system would be deactivated and the car would be stopped.
The company It explained that the vehicles concerned must be brought to dealers in which they were purchased, where they update the software, an operation that takes about 30 minutes.
The fault is detected at a time which Toyota, like other Japanese manufacturers have still present are the vehicle mass redial a malfunction caused by the company Takata airbags that caused at least 8 deaths worldwide.
Already more than 50 million cars had to be called to review worldwide affected by this failure of airbags Takata, which can be opened with excessive force and projecting metal fragments their ocupantes.EFE
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