Toyota will make automatic braking near-standard by 2017 https://t.co/3776w0y4yw pic.twitter.com/SHJmuqYuWB
— Engadget (@engadget) March 28, 2016
Last month, 20 major automakers got together with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and agreed to make automatic emergency braking (AEB) standard on all new vehicles by 2022.
Toyota sees no reason to wait.
The automaker that sold over 10 million new cars in 2015 says it has the resources to make AEB standard by the end of 2017 on every model except two former Scion nameplates, the Mirai (which isn't even available to the general public yet), and the 4Runner (we don't know why the poor 4Runner gets left out).
America's leading traffic safety organizations have been pushing to make AEB standard because of its huge potential to mitigate collisions and save lives. Toyota's version of the technology, called the Toyota Pre-Collision System (PCS) is part of the Toyota Safety Sense package, and uses a combination of millimeter wave radar, laser, and camera sensors to scan the road for danger.
If it detects an unavoidable collision, and the driver has not taken evasive action, the car can apply brakes automatically to reduce the speed of the impact, or even avoid it altogether.
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