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Vehicle safety is a commitment Toyota and Lexus make to every vehicle, and it’s why more than 24% of Toyota and Lexus vehicles are named as 2009 Top Safety Picks by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). To achieve leadership in safety, Toyota and Lexus focus on three priority areas. First, safety targets are voluntarily set to exceed regulatory requirements so that our vehicles are equipped with the latest available safety technology.

Second, Toyota invests heavily in R&D efforts to maximize vehicle safety for all occupants and to continue to create leading safety technology, including recently announced world’s first rear curtain shield airbag.

Finally, Toyota and Lexus understand that safety goes beyond just vehicle manufacturing – it also must take into account the way vehicles, people and the environment interact. At Toyota, the advancement of these Intelligent Transportation Systems, wherein vehicles can communicate with one another and with the traffic environment to ease congestion and reduce traffic accidents, is a future vision of safe roadways and a key focus of our research efforts.

All these current active and passive safety features and future transportation system developments make Toyota and Lexus vehicles even safer. For more information on Toyota's safety initiatives, please visit www.safetytoyota.com.

Sep 30, 2022 Toyota Announces Extension to Safety Connect and Service Connect Trials
TORONTO, Ontario – September 30, 2022 –Toyota today announces additional peace of mind to assist when the unexpected occurs. Safety Connect, a suite of available services that help drivers stay secure while on the road, is now available with an extended trial period to customers of select Toyota models...
Sep 08, 2022 Test road named ‘Mobility4All Parkway’ in recognition of Toyota’s five-year anniversary of becoming ACM founding sponsor
YPSILANTI, Michigan – September 8, 2022 – Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) and the American Center for Mobility (ACM) today unveiled “Mobility4All Parkway” as the new name of a test road at ACM’s Smart Mobility Test Center. Toyota was granted naming...
Nov 12, 2021 Toyota Renews Investment in Collaborative Safety Research Center with Five-Year,
$30 Million USD Commitment to Drive Next Phase of Safety Innovation
ANN ARBOR, Michigan – NOVEMBER 9, 2021– The pursuit of safe mobility involves a continuous flow of novel ideas and breakthrough innovations to help reduce the number of traffic fatalities. Toyota created the Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) in 2011 to advance safety for the industry as a whole through open partnerships with universities, hospitals and other institutions...
Jul 24, 2020 How Our Posture Can Help Inform Future Safety Systems
How we sit in cars is helping us research new safety tests and design enhanced restraint systems for automated vehicles. Jason Hallman, a Principal Engineer at the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center, is leading research that explores...
Jun 26, 2020 Building on Toyota’s Safety Pedigree: TSS and LSS+ Third Generation System
We have all experienced it. The car in front of you on the road stops short, and your heart skips a beat as you have fractions of a second to respond. More often than not, your quick reactions and instincts prevent an accident, but, as we all know,...
Jun 25, 2020 The Toyota & Lexus Technology That Helps Keep You Safe
TORONTO, ON, June 24, 2020 ― Imagine you are driving your car on a normal day. As you stop for a red light, you’re hit from behind because the driver behind you stopped watching the road. Now imagine that same situation, except this time the car stops...
Jun 24, 2020 Toyota’s Path to Safety Leadership
Throughout its history, safety has been among Toyota’s/Lexus’ top priorities. Toyota/Lexus is constantly innovating and enhancing technology that assist a driver’s ability to operate their vehicle, while helping to reduce or mitigate serious...
Jun 16, 2020 MIT AND TOYOTA RELEASE INNOVATIVE NEW VISUAL OPEN DATA TO ACCELERATE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING RESEARCH
CAMBRIDGE, MA – JUNE 15, 2020 – How can we train self-driving vehicles to have a deeper awareness of the world around them? Can computers learn from past experiences to recognize future patterns that can help them safely navigate new and unpredictable situations?
Jun 16, 2020 Toyota Offers Free Access to THUMS Virtual Human Body Model Software
TORONTO, ON, June 16, 2020 ― Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today announced that it will make its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) software freely available from January 2021 as part of its efforts toward a safe mobility society. THUMS is a...
Jun 11, 2020 How Vehicles Talk to Pedestrians
Whenever we cross the street or wait for the walk signal, we have ingrained behaviours and ways to signal our intent to drivers. Similarly, drivers behave in a way that signals their intents to pedestrians. When developing automated vehicles, designers...