SUSONO, Japan — Toyota is developing a security technology that takes control of steering the vehicle can veer away when it is unable to stop before impact.
Toyota Motor Corp has shown some of its up and coming innovations in a demonstration to reporters Thursday at its facility in this city, West of Tokyo, near Mount Fuji.
Automakers from around the world are working on a special security technology in an effort to woo customers, intensifies competition among producers already neck-and-neck in expressing their regular features to their products.
Cars that stop or slow down automatically before an object or a person waiting for a possible incident are not new. But the latest pre-collision Toyota adds a steering control functionality.
In the new system, Toyota uses cameras and a super sensitive radar called "millimeter waves" is installed at the front of the vehicle to identify possible crashes as a pedestrian crossing the road.
The vehicle shall be calculated as steering and brakes must be applied to avoid an accident, said the security chief technology officer Moritaka Yoshida.
"We have to learn from incidents and keep making improvements in security," he said.
The Japanese automaker has refused to say when the functionality can be offered on a commercial model, or markets, but officials hinted it was ready to be offered soon.
Toyota said explaining zero deaths and injuries, although he did not say when that objective could be achieved.
Fatalities are down in auto accidents, because of better security features, but deaths among pedestrians in road traffic accidents in Japan not decreased.
Protect pedestrians is increasingly essential, according to Toyota, which makes the Prius hybrid and luxury Lexus models.
Toyota has shown what is called a pop-up hood that rises slightly in an accident, to mitigate the impact of a pedestrian getting hit by a car, similar to the functionality offered by European manufacturers.
He also shows how parts of the rays from beam could be blocked so that drivers still could see clearly what was next while would seem to be on dipped beam headlights driver in a car coming from the opposite direction.
Toyota also showed a steering wheel in development that measure the driver heartbeat to prevent crashes can happen when drivers suffer from heart attacks.
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