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Toyota Says Aims To Commercialize Semi-Autonomous Cars Around 2020


Ron Burgundy
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A woman walks under a logo of Toyota Motor Corp at the company's showroom in TokyoToyota Motor Corp said it would aim to bring to market cars that can autonomously change lanes, merge with traffic, and overtake other vehicles on highways by around 2020 as it aims to catch up in the nascent field of self-driving cars. Demonstrating its newest safety technology features to media on Tuesday, Japan's biggest automaker said in that car of the future, drivers would be able to turn on and off the auto-pilot mode with a single switch. Toyota also said it would launch three models in Japan this year equipped with "intelligent transportation system" (ITS) technology, which allows vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication to alert drivers to potential dangers using sensor technology.




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