diff --git a/selfdrive/debug/max_lat_accel.py b/selfdrive/debug/max_lat_accel.py
index a2390833bc..dc44e8ac40 100755
--- a/selfdrive/debug/max_lat_accel.py
+++ b/selfdrive/debug/max_lat_accel.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import argparse
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+from functools import partial
 from tqdm import tqdm
 from typing import NamedTuple
 from openpilot.tools.lib.logreader import LogReader
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
       print('WARNING: Treating route as qlog!')
 
     print('Finding events...')
-    events += find_events(lr, extrapolate=args.extrapolate, qlog=qlog)
+    events += lr.run_across_segments(8, partial(find_events, extrapolate=args.extrapolate, qlog=qlog), disable_tqdm=True)
 
   print()
   print(f'Found {len(events)} events')
diff --git a/tools/lib/logreader.py b/tools/lib/logreader.py
index 290171d363..2a0015e6b0 100755
--- a/tools/lib/logreader.py
+++ b/tools/lib/logreader.py
@@ -307,11 +307,11 @@ class LogReader:
   def _run_on_segment(self, func, i):
     return func(self._get_lr(i))
 
-  def run_across_segments(self, num_processes, func, desc=None):
+  def run_across_segments(self, num_processes, func, disable_tqdm=False, desc=None):
     with multiprocessing.Pool(num_processes) as pool:
       ret = []
       num_segs = len(self.logreader_identifiers)
-      for p in tqdm.tqdm(pool.imap(partial(self._run_on_segment, func), range(num_segs)), total=num_segs, desc=desc):
+      for p in tqdm.tqdm(pool.imap(partial(self._run_on_segment, func), range(num_segs)), total=num_segs, disable=disable_tqdm, desc=desc):
         ret.extend(p)
       return ret