New Collision Avoidance Technology Unveiled Toyota Higashi Fuji Research Center

July 21, 2011, Susonosi, Japan - A passenger seat airbag is fully inflated in a badly damaged Toyota Crown after a head-on collision with a Toyota VITZ at a speed of 55km/h (about 34 miles/h) in a demonstration at Toyota's Higashi-Fuji Technical Center on the foot of Mt. speed of 55km/h (about 34 miles/h) in a demonstration at Toyota's Higashi-Fuji Technical Center on the foot of Mt. Some 92km (about 57 miles) southwest of Tokyo, on Thursday, July 21, 2011. Toyota showed to reporters technologies aimed at increasing safety for pedestrians and elderly drivers, as part of its initiatives to eliminate traffic casualties. The technologies include a Pre-Collision System with collision-avoidance assist, glare-preventing adaptive driving beams and a pop-up hood for lessening pedestrian injuries. In the PCS, Toyota uses cameras and a super sensitive radar called "millimeter-wave," both installed in the front of the vehicle, to detect possible crashes. In the PCS, Toyota uses cameras and a super-sensitive radar called "millimeter-wave," both installed in the front of the vehicle, to detect possible crashes such as a pedestrian crossing the road. Then the vehicle calculates how braking and steering must be applied to avoid a crash. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) [3615] -mis-