“We believe the driver should always be in control of the vehicle.” That’s what Toyota’s corporate manager of North American business strategy Jim Pisz told Wired, and it’s all you need to know about the automaker’s pursuit of autonomous vehicles. Toyota is being cautious. Calculated. And in typical Japanese fashion, reserved.
This morning, Toyota and its luxurious sibling Lexus showed off their “advanced active safety research vehicle” at CES, an LS600h equipped with high-definition cameras, advanced GPS, radar and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) laser tracking systems similar to those being used on Google’s fleet of autonomous Toyota Prius hybrids and Lexus RX SUVs. But this isn’t a collaboration between the two industry titans. Toyota and its Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team are going it alone for a reason.
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