The world's largest automaker, Toyota , announced Friday that it will sell around 2015 vehicles able to go into " automatic driving "respecting the safety distances and staying in the right path.
"These advanced technologies help prevent human error, reduce the stress of driving and help drivers avoid accidents, which should help lower the number of deaths on the roads," said Moritaka Yoshida, a Toyota responsible for presenting a demonstration for journalists.
Toyota works on automatic control techniques for twenty years and looks well as other manufacturers and companies in the sector of new technologies like Google , to facilitate the work of drivers to enhance their security.
Its automatic aid highway driving (Automated Highway Driving Assist or ahda) system and establishes a wireless communication from the vehicle to change its speed to maintain a safe distance . It also uses the cameras and radar , among other facilities. All managed by an operating system to keep the vehicle in its lane - the road is straight or curvy.
"The cars equipped with this technology detects acceleration and brake blows those which precede, which makes the flow of traffic," said a charge of the project, Mitsuhisa Shida. "The cars share the information every tenth of a second."
Through another system introduced by the manufacturer, the vehicle can detect a pedestrian or an animal on the road, and immediately stop and change course to avoid it. The system can detect the obstacle four seconds before the potential impact, Toyota said.
The manufacturer has also developed a system of automatic garage : the driver stopped his vehicle near a place, and then presses a button and the car ranks alone.
Toyota believes that these techniques will also help promote driving for seniors , more and more people want to get behind the wheel of the aging of the population and society encouraging mobility.
Compatriot and rival Toyota, Nissan, presented last week similar techniques at a electronics show in the suburbs of Tokyo.
