Living up to its reputation as an innovator in the automotive industry, Toyota recently unveiled ambitious plans to start testing autonomous electric vehicles by 2020. If you’re wondering what to expect from Toyota self-driving cars, take a look at the company’s plans for the future.
Driverless-Vehicle Technology
Over the past several years, Toyota has put a lot of time and money into developing self-driving technology. Radar, cameras, and sensors gather data about road conditions and use special software to send instructions to the vehicle’s braking, acceleration, and steering systems.
While there is a great deal of existing automated-driving software on the market, the quality varies greatly from one developer to the next. Toyota wants to bridge the gap by producing reliable, top-quality products people can count on to safely take them to their destination.
Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development
To help achieve its lofty goals, Toyota invested nearly $3 billion into a new Japanese startup software company. Building on existing work from Toyota’s research labs, the Tokyo-based Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD) aims to develop commercially ready autonomous driving software.
By working with some of the world’s most skilled self-driving software coders, the company hopes to bring driverless technology to its vehicles more quickly. TRI-AD launched with 300 employees but plans to ramp up to more than 1,000 as work gets underway.
It’s just matter of time before autonomous vehicles hit the market. Thanks to a major investment in developing new technologies, the future looks bright for Toyota self-driving cars.
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