Toyota Has No Plans To Jump Into Autonomous Driving Anytime Soon

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to spend years designing cars in which humans retain a large measure of control, since the goal of turning all driving decisions over to computers seems too dangerous for now.

The problem, Toyota said Wednesday, is that society has come to accept 39,000 traffic fatalities a year in the U.S., mostly due to human error, but would never tolerate similar carnage involving cars controlled by computers.

Toyota is casting skepticism on the anticipation stoked by Tesla Motors and technology companies led by Google on the imminent arrival of fully autonomous cars.

MrEE - 1/5/2017 8:05:41 PM

+1 Boost

May not play well, but is the truth. Even if the required infrastructure could be put in place, the risk of lawsuits will kill the possibility. Improved crash prevention is what can be expected over the next 5 years.