Toyota would like to see its autonomous cars deployed in Japan by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Toyota has demonstrated its self-driving auto concept saying it would like to start selling autonomous vehicles by 2020.
Take a closer look at the Lexus GS prototype with the Toyota Highway Teammate features in the videos below. Lexus has revealed its latest stage in the move towards driverless cars, with a system it calls Highway Teammate. The Lexus vehicle was able to merge onto and exit highways, … Similarly, ITS can allow traffic signals to warn cars that they are about to change, or even help draw attention to emergency vehicles needing to quickly pass through an intersection on a red signal. The technology had previously been referred to as “advanced driver support”. The cost of the sensors will have to be lowered for Toyota to introduce its autonomous cars as a mass-market vehicle.
Highway self-driving is arguably a modest evolutionary step from current lane-holding and adaptive cruise control technologies, lacking the ability to truly chauffeur riders from origin to destination. Using road-map data, Highway Teammate then pinpoints its location and “operates the steering wheel, accelerator, and brakes to achieve the appropriate speed and driving lines in much the same way as a person would drive”.
Toyota has been a relative latecomer to the push to design automated automobiles. However, more ambitious plans are in the works as it further develops the technology.
Toyota has unveiled a vehicle that may drive itself alongside a freeway, the newest foray by a serious producer into the world of automated automobiles.
Google has been testing self-driving cars in Silicon Valley, while Nissan has vowed to put an automated vehicle on Japan’s highways as soon as 2016.
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The idea is to provide an experience for drivers in which an onboard computer, utilizing sensors, lasers, and other detection technololgies, handle all the driving.
