TOYOTA CITY, JAPAN: Toyota Motor Corp and its luxury marque Lexus will roll out second-generation safety systems in their vehicle line-ups from 2018.
Toyota Safety Sense is a set of active safety packages developed to reduce accidents.
Key features include:
- Pre-Collision System (PCS), which helps prevent and mitigate collisions with vehicles and pedestrians ahead
- Lane Departure Alert (LDA), which helps prevent vehicles from departing from their lanes
- Automatic High Beam (AHB), which helps ensure optimal forward visibility during nighttime driving
The second-generation Toyota Safety Sense being rolled out in 2018 will continue to use the single-lens camera and millimeter-wave radar currently used in Toyota Safety Sense P.
Smaller-sized units will be designed for easier installation.
It will be further enhanced with the following:
- Expansion of the scope of hazard detection, and improved performance for the camera and radar
Adding night-time pedestrians and cyclists to the scope of hazards detected by PCS.
The current system is unable to detect nighttime pedestrians and cyclists.
Road Sign Assist (RSA)
Key road signs are read by the camera and displayed in the instrument panel.
This reduces the possibility of overlooking speed limits and traffic rules, such as stop signs, no entry signs, and no overtaking signs.
- Advanced driving support feature Lane Tracing Assist (LTA)
Lane Tracing Assist (LTA) keeps the vehicle in the center of a lane by assisting the driver in steering control when using Dynamic Radar Cruise Control.
LTA also comes with Lane Departure Alert (LDA).
With the ability to recognize shoulders on straight roads without white lane markings, it gives alerts when deviating off roads, and assists in regaining track.
The rollout (either as standard or optional) of the first-generation Toyota Safety Sense in almost all passenger cars in Japan, North America, and Europe has recently been completed.
Already, a total of five million vehicles worldwide are fitted with Toyota Safety Sense.
In actual traffic conditions, effects of accident reduction can be seen, such as a 50% reduction in rear-end collisions and 90% in combination with the Intelligent Clearance Sonar (ICS).
