Toyota Safety Sense Brings Advanced Driver Assistance to Everyone
November 27 2020, Toyota Canada
When Toyota first introduced Toyota Safety Sense to the world, the objective was to provide everyone with advanced safety without putting a price on the technologies. Advanced safety shouldn’t be optional in a new vehicle, and Toyota makes a point to provide it to all of its clients in its new lineup of vehicles.
But what is advanced safety exactly? With Toyota Safety Sense, you have a range of technologies integrated into the vehicle that can detect potential dangers and intervene in order to protect you and your passengers. In other words, these systems use a network of radars, sensors, and warnings to detect, warn, and, if needed, intervene to prevent a collision.
Over the years, Toyota Safety Sense has evolved considerably. Here’s an overview of the technologies that make up the base TSS system, as well as the improvements in the TSS 2.0 and 2.5+ systems.
- Pre-Collision System with enhanced deceleration capabilities and the ability to help detect a collision with a pedestrian in front of the vehicle during the day and at night, and with bicyclists in front of the vehicle during the day
- Lane Departure Alert enhanced with “road edge detection” to increase the vehicle’s ability to help drivers stay in their lane
- Lane Tracing Assist provides steering support to help the driver keep the vehicle centred in its lane when Dynamic Radar Cruise Control is in operation
- Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control with enhanced forward recognition and acceleration/deceleration performance across a wide range of speeds. (Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control not available on vehicles equipped with manual transmissions or conventional parking brakes.)
- Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection is enhanced with intersection support:
- At intersections, the system may detect an oncoming vehicle or pedestrian when performing a left-hand turn and may provide audio/visual alerts and automatic braking in certain conditions
- Additional PCS function includes emergency steering assist, which is designed to stabilize the driver’s emergency steering maneuvers within their lane while avoiding a preceding pedestrian
- Road Sign Assist (RSA)
- Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC)
- Lane Keeping Technology: Lane Departure Alert with Steering Assist (LDA w/ SA), Lane Tracing Assist (LTA), and Sway Warning System
- Automatic High Beams (AHB)
Your Toyota dealership will be more than happy to showcase these technologies to you.
