SUSONO, Japan-Toyota develops security technology, which takes over the management of such a vehicle may slip away when he is not able to stop before the crash.
Toyota Motor Corp., showed some of his up and coming safety upgrades in a demonstration to the press on Thursday in his establishment in this town, West of Tokyo, near Mount Fuji.
All the world's automakers working on special security technology in an effort to woo customers, intensification of competition between manufacturers has been neck and neck in the provision of common functions for their products.
Cars that stop or slow down automatically before the object or in anticipation of a possible failure of the person are not new. But Toyota is the latest pre-collision management system control functions.
In the new system uses a Toyota super sensitive camera and millimeter wave radar, called, "installed in the presence of the vehicle, see failure as a pedestrian crossing on the road.
Vehicle counts, as braking and management must be subject to prevent the collision, said the Chief Security technology officer of Moritaka Jan.
"We must learn from the accident and to keep the improvements in the safety elements," he said.
The Japanese automaker refused to say when the function may be offered on business model, or in which markets, but the officials hinted it was ready to offer soon.
Toyota said that goal was zero deaths and injuries, even if it did not say when it would achieve this objective.
The deaths have decreased in car accidents, due to the improved security features, but deaths in traffic accidents of pedestrians decreased in Japan.
Protection of pedestrians is increasingly a key, according to Toyota, which is a hybrid Prius and Lexus luxury models.
Toyota showed what is called a local hood, which slightly mitigate the impact of the crash, for pedestrians, he gets hit by a car, like the features offered by the Europeans.
It also proved to be a part of the beam-beam headlamps would be blocked, that drivers are still clearly saw what was in front of him, while the light would be on the low beam for the driver in the car from the other direction.
Toyota also showed that the steering wheel in the development, which measures the pulse to prevent fails, the driver can happen when drivers suffering from a heart attack.
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