Starting next year, the company will begin to offer active safety technologies that are dubbed as Toyota Safety Sense (TSS). They will be broken down into two packages that promise to be affordable and aim to prevent or mitigate collisions.
The technology has been tried and tested and follows the same routine. When a collision is imminent, the system will provide an audio and visual warning to alert the driver. If the driver fails to respond, the system will automatically apply the brakes and reduce the car's speed by approximately 30 km/h.
Then there is the Lane Departure Alert and Automatic High Beam system which is included in the TSS C package. We've seen these technologies on the new Mercedes-Benz cars and they too will be an added bonus.
The other - TSS P package - will be offered on mid-sized and high-end cars and include all the elements from the TSS C package as well as Radar Cruise Control and an upgraded Pre-collision System with pedestrian detection technology.