Toyota expands safety research with Rs 211 crore investment

  • Sep 5, 2014
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The Japanese carmaker has announced that it will invest Rs 211 crore over the following six years at its Collaborative Safety Research Centre (CSRC) in Ann Arbor, in US

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Toyota states its Collaborative Safety Research Centre (CSRC) is expanding its mission to advance automotive safety research, with a new focus on the challenges and opportunities that evolving vehicle technologies will present over the next decade.

The new research is focused on guidelines for touchscreens and sensors that deliver safety information to drivers and enable cars to communicate with each other in order to avoid collisions. This way, cars, homes and offices will get increasingly in touch with each other as consumers will receive more information through their cell phones, tablets, touchscreens and other wearable devices.

Commenting on the safety research, Chuck Gulash, Director, CSRC, said, “The centre’s newly expanded mission recognises that the emergence of new technologies is radically reshaping the transportation landscape. Thanks to these exciting automated and connected vehicle technologies, drivers and their vehicles are increasingly working together as team-mates and sharing more responsibilities on the road.”

“We hope to help pave the way for the safe introduction of these new systems, not only by refining these technologies, but also by preparing the drivers who will be using them, with the continued goal of saving lives,” he further added.

Since 2011, the Centre has focused its research on active safety, driver distraction, and at-risk traffic populations — including children, teens, pedestrians and seniors to better understand how to help protect people in crashes and prevent collisions from happening at all.

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