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Curb Your Acceleration: Aging Drivers Spur Toyota Into Action

A rising number of elderly drivers — and pedal misapplication crashes — in its home market has compelled Toyota to engineer a solution.

The automaker announced Monday that a new “acceleration suppression function” combining data collected from real-word driving and its existing Toyota Safety Sense suite of driver-assist features will determine, and intervene, when a driver hits the wrong pedal.

Steph Willems Feb 03, 2020

Toyota, Lexus Bring Low-Cost Automated Braking To Respective Ranges

When Toyota and Lexus reveal their respective crossovers at the 2015 New York Auto Show, both will come with low-cost automated braking safety packages.

Cameron Aubernon Mar 31, 2015

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IBx1 Imagine trying to shill a Focus/Fiesta with the powershift DCT.
CmorScagnetti Nissan makes decent products. Nothing class leading but get the job done stuff
Art Vandelay Long line precision placement. I used to watch contract birds drop containers on the mark in this manner because a convention sling load would bring the bird too close to the ground and the rotor wash would blow the FOB away. Took skill. It was mostly pilots that had worked for logging companies I always heard
Kevin I charge almost exclusively at home with a Level 2 charger. On rare occasions I use a Level 3 charging station, but mostly just to top up a bit on a longer trip over 150mi. For true long range trips we use my wife's Pilot instead.
YellowDuck wow that grey interior certainly is....grey. Like everywhere. I wonder what trim level you need to spec to get the black and tan?

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