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How to hack your Prius

By Amy Bennett 2 comments

June 25, 2009, 9:00 AM — Toyota's high-tech hybrid has a host of electronic hooks that you can fiddle with, and geeks have embraced the car and learned to fiddle with it for their own purposes. These videos demonstrate a number of cool Prius hacks. You can turn your car into a true plug-in hybrid of the sort not yet available in showrooms; you can put the dashboard computer into diagnostic mode and muck around in its guts; or, if you're feeling really ambitious, you can control the car's drive-by-wire steering wheel from your laptop.

Amy Bennett is ITworld's managing editor. Follow her on Google+ and Twitter @atbennett

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allie_valenza 46 weeks ago

I don’t know much about cars but this is really nice! It reminds me of an American show where some guys used to make amazing things out of cars. I only like to drive them, though I would love to have a better idea on how they ‘work’ and not call Atlanta Towing every time I need my vehicle pulled out of mud or stuff like that ^_^. Thanks for sharing by the way. It was nice to watch.

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Anonymous 2 years ago

Awesome work! I'm heading over to subscribe to your videos right now :) Also, way to utilize Processing for something cool. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.Chrelad

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