Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) had demonstrated its latest advances in vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems, which use Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) technologies to enable communication between cars and elements of their surroundings in an effort to reduce collisions.
The cooperative systems, presented at a media event at TMC’s Higashi Fuji Technical Center, make road-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle and pedestrian-to-vehicle information exchange possible, resulting in audio and visual warnings to drivers when a collision is probable. TMC’s development of ITS vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems represents—along with the development and application of autonomous onboard safety devices—part of its efforts to develop safe vehicles under its Integrated Safety Management Concept, which was announced in August 2006 outlining that TMC aims to provide optimal driving support through a combination of integrated onboard technologies and infrastructure-respondent systems.
Examples of vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems:
Road-to-vehicle system for preventing drivers from running red lights
Road-to-vehicle system for preventing drivers from missing stop signs
Vehicle-to-vehicle and road-to-vehicle system for detecting approaching vehicles
Pedestrian-to-vehicle system for detecting pedestrians
