Posted on 07/21/2011 8:14:46 AM PDT by Still Thinking
SUSONO, Japan (AP) -- Toyota is developing a safety technology that takes control of the steering so the vehicle can veer away when it isn't able to stop before impact.
Toyota Motor Corp. showed some of its up and coming safety innovations in a demonstration to reporters Thursday at its facility in this town, west of Tokyo, near Mount Fuji.
All the world's automakers are working on special safety technology in an effort to woo customers, as competition intensifies among manufacturers already neck-and-neck in delivering the regular features for their products.
Cars that stop or slow down automatically before an object or person in anticipation of a possible crash are not new. But Toyota's latest pre-collision system adds a steering-control feature.
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I wonder if they are going to use the same technology that controls the gas pedal.
A fine old Chrysler, there. Yours?
Precisely what I was thinking! Two weeks ago I was driving on mountain roads with no rails and unsurvivable drops.
The last thing that I want is a car that swerves for me. I’ll take my own brain any day.
Back on level ground, how does the swerving computer know whether there is oncoming traffic in the adjacent lane?
Very scary. No thanks.
No. I am thinking it is a 61 Imperial. I was just looking for a picture of an old wrap around windshield. I am pretty sure the green car in the back is a ‘57 Imperial. I have one of those. It’s pink.
There was a time when Chryslers were very well engineered and very innovative.
The 57 is a marvel in engineering. There isn't a part of that car that isn't a cut above the other companies. Dual point ignition and torsion bars on the rear axle. Some of the stuff is too engineered and a nightmare to work on.
This is the car being show at a Concourse event in my area. It is an all original car.
I’m partial to the ‘56 Imperial and Chrysler 300-C and the ‘61 300. Plus, the mid-60’s Imperial sedans, coupes and convertibles, very clean and timeless looking. The big change in styling occurred after Virgil Exner’s reign ended and tailfins had run their course. Elwood Engel came over from Ford to replace Exner as Chrysler head stylist, and was responsible for the very clean look of all their cars, Dodge and Plymouth included.
That’s a really nice early Riviera behind your car, too. Love those as well.
Excellent point.
And we’ve all been concentrating on “normal” failures, when the programming you’d expect might make a wrong decision for the circumstances. What about total failures, when the sensor gives a faulty reading or the computer divides by zero or something and spontaneously decides to swerve into opposing traffic when there was no original hazard at all? This is lawsuit heaven, baby, and I’m on the lawyers side on this one for a change.
I certainly hope so. I mean if the car's going to run away, the least it could do is try not to crash into stuff.
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