Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center Works To Improve Vehicle Safety

Sep 22, 2014

Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) has been actively researching ways to improve and advance automotive safety technologies. CSRC will now be focusing its efforts on improving emerging automated- and connected-vehicle technologies. To do so, the group will explore the connection between social trends and future mobility to create a safer future driving environment.

CSRC was recently granted a $35 million commitment allowing them to continue their research efforts on through 2020. The center shares its research with institutions throughout the U.S in order to collaborated and spread the development of safety technologies. In the past three years CSRC has focused the majority of its efforts on at-risk traffic populations, active safety and driver distraction.

“At Toyota, we believe in the fundamental principle that when good ideas are shared, great things can happen,” said Osamu Nagata, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), who made the announcement at Toyota’s 2014 Advanced Safety Seminar in Ann Arbor, Mich. “As new automotive technologies continue to evolve, CSRC is committed to working with its partners across the industry and beyond to help realize a future of mobility that is safer and greener than today.”