Toyota N America CEO Wants Self-Driving Technology To Keep Old Drivers On The Road

According to Jim Lentz, Toyota North America CEO, the Japanese carmakers’ plans for autonomous vehicles fall more into the realm of helping drivers improve their skills rather than allowing drivers to sit back while the vehicle does the work.

Toyota’s driverless car technology has an advanced cruise-control system that uses wireless communication with nearby vehicles to determine a safe distance to follow. The company also uses a lane-monitoring technology that allows the steering wheel to keep to its highway lane. The company recently began testing the technology.



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nguyenvuminh - 10/17/2013 2:40:11 PM

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Good legitimate point. Our society have elderly living separately from their children and they will need to get around somehow. Something to help them get to and fro safer than if they were to do it on their own would be good for them and the other drivers on the road.

PUGPROUD - 10/17/2013 7:15:20 PM

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Good intentions. My concern with self driving cars besides computer glitches and computer crashes is how will it really be on the road when half the cars are self driven and half are not ? I have this terrible gut feeling that bad and young drivers will take more risks knowing that driverless cars will not hit them and have to yield to them in every situation. I'm talking about the guys/gals who drive at high
speed cutting in and out of lanes and the motorcycles that pass you at twice the speed limit. Just a thought.

Backwoodsrider - 10/18/2013 8:49:30 AM

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They only want old drivers on the road because thats who buys their cars. Toyota is just trying to hang on to them for as long as possible. Other then the Tacoma and Tundra, Toyota has nothing to offer any more.