ANN ARBOR, MI -- Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) announced 10 new research initiatives, along with new research agreements with six leading North American universities and institutions, to work on new automotive safety innovations across North America.
Read More →WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Wake Forest School of Medicine is one of six leading research institutions across the country chosen by Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) to enhance the development, testing and implementation of new automotive safety innovations.
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ARLINGTON, VA - The Highway Loss Data Institute studied a collision avoidance feature on the Volvo XC60, called City Safety, which it found reduced the total number of low-speed crashes drivers experienced.
Read More →WASHINGTON - This year's International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, held June 13-16, featured demonstrations of the latest in-vehicle crash avoidance technologies including vehicle-to-vehicle communications and other advanced systems fitted in both production and prototype vehicles.
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ROCKLIN, NJ – Volvo is developing a safety system that alerts the driver and automatically brakes (if the driver doesn't react) when animals are on the road in a vehicle’s path.
Read More →LOS ANGELES - Ford Motor Co. convened a panel of auto industry, transportation and technology visionaries at Dodger Stadium on May 25 to showcase and discuss how intelligent vehicles could soon lead to safety breakthroughs.
Read More →MUNICH, GERMANY - Though comprehensive automated car control is at least a decade away, BMW engineers are making significant progress in developing safety technology that can take control of a vehicle in the event of a driver's sudden incapacitation, Popular Mechanics reported this month.
Read More →EL SEGUNDO, CA - Statistics show that 2009 was the least deadly year on American roads in nearly 60 years. With the growing use of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), that momentum should continue into the future.
Read More →SANTA ANA, CA - Traffic technology leader Iteris Inc. announced that its partner, Valeo, recently won a supply contract to provide Iteris' Lane Departure Warning (LDW) technology to another original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
Read More →BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - WABCO Holdings Inc., a major supplier to the commercial vehicle industry, said it will introduce its OnGuardPLUS advanced emergency braking system (AEBS) at this year's IAA Commercial Vehicles event in Hanover, Germany.
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