Toyota Takes Its Commitment On Car Safety Seriously

By Author: Marty Vergel Baes
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Toyota has recently announced that the company will launch the so called “Collaborative Safety Research Center” or “CSRC” which is an initiative that would help in reducing the number injuries, deaths, and other fatalities incurred from accidents on the road. This initiative hopes to draw participation from different members of the society so as to tackle the issue of road safety. This was actually one of the biggest moves by Toyota in its commitment to provide commuters and car owners with safer vehicles and more secured travelling environment.

In this initiative, Toyota commits to provide an estimated budget of about 50 million dollars for the next five years. This funding will be used to look for better ways to reduce the amount of distraction that the driver usually gets from different sources. This might probably result to technologies that could guarantee that the driver’s attention remains on his driving activity and the road. Through this, expensive and cheap new car models from Toyota would probably safer compared to other car makes and models.

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... will also be focusing on studying the most effective ways on how to improve the safety features of all the vehicles that are included in Toyota’s latest new car prices list. Although their vehicles were considered as one of the safest, the company still wants to take the issue of car safety to the next level. Through this, they would be able to make sure that the customers who would be buying their cars through auto loans or in straight cash basis are getting vehicles with the most advanced safety gadgets and functions.

CSRC will be conducting its 01duties and responsibilities as soon as possible. This particular division would be based at the Toyota Technical Center at Toyota’s North American Research and Development arm in Ann Arbor Michigan. This will utilize all of the company’s researchers and safety engineers in North America. In addition to this, the studies and other undertakings will be supported by the company’s Japanese personnel. For better results, representatives from different universities, federal agencies and hospitals in North America will collaborate with the company’s team.