Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has demonstrated its latest advances in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) technologies which enables communication between cars and their surroundings to reduce collisions.

These systems—which can even reduce vehicle speed, if needed—are expected to reduce the number of traffic accidents that are difficult to prevent with conventional safety devices.

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.

As a part of its efforts to realize sustainable mobility, TMC intends to strengthen its traffic safety initiatives in the future through: 1) the development of even safer vehicles and technologies, 2) participation in the creation of a safe traffic environment and 3) activities designed to educate people in traffic safety, thereby contributing to the complete elimination of traffic accidents and traffic casualties, which can be viewed as the ultimate hope of a society that values mobility.