Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday its upcoming models will incorporate safety measures to prevent accidents and help reduce injuries from collisions.
The new technologies include a system called vehicle dynamics integrated management, which begins integrated control of the brakes, engine and steering at an earlier stage.
It has also upgraded its radar system to predict collisions, utilizing information from millimeter-wave radar and images shot by a camera in the vehicle's precrash sensor.
Beginning in the fall of 2004, all newly released Toyota cars will feature a body structure designed to be the best in its class at reducing head injuries sustained by pedestrians in collisions, it said.
Toyota said it will establish a new driver-training facility with a 100,000-sq.-meter course next spring in the town of Oyama, Shizuoka Prefecture, where driving safety skills lessons will be offered to the public.