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Toyota Has The Brains To Uncover The Science Behind Mobility Solutions

Research, CSRC

Toyota’s CSRC team wants to introduce you to John Lenneman. As a senior principal research scientist, John loves a good brain game.

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Toyota CSRC Funding Four New Safety Research Studies

Research, In the News, CSRC

The Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) is investing $1-million in four research projects aimed at enabling safer and more efficient mobility systems by exploring driver behavior in different environments, monitoring driver health and identifying driver error when interacting with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) technologies.

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Toyota Driver Monitoring Sensors Could Detect Heart Trouble

Research, In the News, CSRC

Pujitha Gunaratne, a principal scientist at the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center, hopes to do that by developing in-car sensors to keep tabs on drivers’ health while they are piloting their car.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Rise To The Automation Challenge?

Events, CSRC

John Lenneman, a senior principal engineer with Toyota’s CSRC, joined Amy Bucher with Mad*Pow and James Jenness at Westat during PAVE’s Virtual Panel to share key insights into how driving automation is perceived and how best to educate consumers about the technology.

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Toyota Is Working To Take A Pulse On Driver’s Health While They’re Behind The Wheel

Research, CSRC

Toyota’s CSRC team wants you to meet Pujitha Gunarante. As a principal scientist, Pujitha’s passion focuses on researching human behaviors related to driver health and their safety.

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Making Roads Safer By Detecting Driver Heart Anomalies

Research, In the News, CSRC

An interview with Pujitha Gunaratne, a principal scientist at the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center, who is leading research to develop algorithms that could detect and predict potentially life-threatening heart episodes that may strike the driver of a moving vehicle.

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Knowing When Vehicles Depart A Road Is The First Step In Improving Vehicle Safety

Research, CSRC

Toyota’s CSRC team wants you to meet Rini Sherony. As a senior principal engineer, Rini is dedicating her craft to active safety, crash avoidance and automated driving safety research.

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How Toyota Studies Posture To Improve Vehicle Safety

Research, In the News, CSRC

With countless factors to consider, making a car safe isn’t easy.

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How Our Posture Can Help Inform Future Safety Systems

Research, In the News, CSRC

How we sit in cars is helping us research new safety tests and design enhanced restraint systems for automated vehicles.

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Greater Use Of THUMS For Analysis Of Vehicle Collision-Related Injuries To Enhance Vehicle Safety

Research, In the News, CSRC

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will make its Total Human Model for Safety (THUMS) software freely available from January 2021 as part of its efforts toward a safe mobility society.

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