ANN ARBOR, MI
Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) recently brought together top experts to share the latest safety innovations and insights driving safe mobility forward. In an exclusive media briefing, CSRC researchers released new findings alongside research collaborators from across the country. The key findings from the latest wave of completed projects are available in this HANDOUT BOOKLET. Presenting in the briefing were researchers from University of Massachusetts Amherst, Purdue University, University of Virginia, University of Iowa, and Touchstone Evaluations, Inc. Among the learnings released:
1) A web-based new driver training Risk ATTEND (freely available now) was shown to accelerate safe driving skills using a driving simulator.
2) A new e-Scooter dataset was released to enhance intersection safety and has already enabled novel algorithms for vehicle crash prediction and avoidance.
3) New understandings of ankle anatomy may be contributing to sex-specific differences in ankle injury rates in crashes and were incorporated into the latest crash simulation tools
4) Customer education for vehicle safety and convenience features may be enhanced through unique expressions of driver responsibilities followed by in-vehicle experience.
5) Speeding is associated with the driving context, particularly idling time in a given trip, suggesting the importance of a driver’s trip goal when developing anti-speeding interventions.
These projects are part of CSRC latest five-year $30 million initiative aimed at reducing traffic fatalities and injuries. This work reinforces Toyota’s commitment to a safer mobility future through innovative research and collaboration.