We often see some news reports that someone mistakenly used the accelerator as a brake and caused a car accident. Now Toyota has released an emergency safety system to reduce this situation.
At the beginning of the year, Toyota released an emergency safety system called "accelerator suppression function". The system will use big data analysis to determine whether the driver should accelerate when stepping on the accelerator. If it is identified as a mistake, the accelerator will not take effect.
It is reported that this system is to deal with Japan's increasing traffic accident problem due to aging. Statistics show that in 2018, about 15% of fatal traffic accidents in Japan were caused by drivers over the age of 75.
Toyota plans to implement this system for new Japanese cars this year, and it may be extended to other markets in the future to save more“road killers”.