Toyota develops rear collision protection system

WOW! - Looks JUST LIKE the Mercedes PreSafe! What an innovation!

Pre-safe, and the current Lexus pre-collision technology are designed for front-end impacts. When your car is about to hit something...

This is for rear-end collisions. When your car is about to BE hit.

Thanks webguy
These Lexus Bashers are so eager to find a fault with Lexus that they write before doing some research.

Yes mercedes had the Pre-Safe feature on the previous generation S-class and has Tweaked it for the New S-Class but " The Pre-Safe® system springs into action in the crucial seconds before an accident, when there is a detectable event such as skidding or heavy braking." ( That was taken from the MB website on the features of the S-Class)

The Lexus on the other hand does everything the MB does in terms of inevitable foward collisions but IT ALSO HAS THE ABILITY TO DETECT IMMINENT CRASHES FROM BEHIND AND PREPARES THE OCCUPANTS FOR IT BY SEATBELT PRETENSIONING AND MOVING HEADRESTS FOWARD TO PREVENT WHIPLASH INJURY.

You all know for a fact that MB & probably BMW will run and introduce this Rear-End stuff within the next 24 Months ( Will you then claim MB & BMW copied Lexus?? )

I hope that clears it up once and for all.

Thank you Mercedes Benz for collision detection.

And it looks like Toyota bought a MB and took it apart and copied it.

What else is new?

I think a better idea it to prevent them in the first place, like Mercedes's soon to be rapidly flashing LED brake lights or BMW's "Growing" lights.

Actually I believe Mercedes Benz had already implemented the forward tilting headrest for rear end collision to prevent whiplash. Their Presafe 1 and 2 all had the seats belt pretensioning, seat adjustment, seat bolstering, window closing and shutting all the excess stuff off to prepare for a crash.

Anyhow the rear sensing thing is a nice improvement with the sensors, but what happens when the car is in the city held up in traffic with cars front and rears being centimeters apart? Will you get a constant beeping noise, a constant seatbelt tightening and readjusting of the seat whenever you are the stop light? or when someone is tailgating you?

I found an article describing the Mercedes Benz NECK-PRO head rests, it was debuted in 2005 and is already in a lot of its 2006 models and onwards.

http://www.carpages.co.uk/mercedes_benz/mercedes-benz-neck-pro-27-06-05.asp

check it out. I believe the also used sensors in the rear much like the Rear PreCollision thing..lexus had just introduced.

I think SAAB pioneered anti-whiplash headrests, which debuted on the 1997 9-5.