Safety is a top priority at Toyota. The automaker’s Star Safety System — a bundle of numerous safety features — is already standard on every vehicle it sells. Now, the automaker is preparing its latest safety innovation: active steering.
Some cars feature technology that applies the brakes when a danger is identified in the vehicle’s path. This technology is helpful to avoid collisions with other vehicles or even pedestrians (when it works properly), but Toyota’s active steering system goes a step further and actually steers your car away from danger.
The new system uses cameras and radar in the front of the vehicle, to detect a potential collision with a pedestrian. If it detects a pedestrian, the system will steer the car out of the way automatically, essentially overriding input from the driver.
“We must learn from accidents and keep making improvements in safety features,” said chief safety technology officer Moritaka Yoshida.
Toyota has not announced the model that’s going to receive this technology first, but emphasized it will be available to consumers soon.
While fatalities have been declining in auto accidents, deaths among pedestrians in traffic accidents haven’t gone down in Japan. Toyota’s pre-collision tech is intended to provide a new level of protection for pedestrians.
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