Safety

For us, the journey to a safer world never ends

Toyota takes pride in the safety and craftsmanship of our vehicles, carefully designing them with advanced safety features and technologies to help protect you and your passengers. We work with researchers and engineers around the world, asking the right questions, studying drivers, and analyzing crash data. And beyond the research and safety features that go into our cars and trucks, we’re contributing to a variety of driver educational programs that can help you go places more safely.

Safety Features

Collisions that result in serious injury are often caused by the delay in a driver’s recognition of the situation and their ability to react accordingly. We’ve developed driver assistance technologies to help make our drivers aware of certain potential hazards of the road and bring them one step closer to avoiding crashes altogether.

Toyota Safety SenseTM is packed with features designed to help protect you and your passengers.

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Safety Research

Toyota created the Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC) in 2011 to advance mobility safety for industry and society through collaborations with universities, hospitals and other research institutions.

Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., at Toyota’s North American R&D Headquarters, CSRC is a small multidisciplinary team of researchers with a passion for traffic safety and a vision to help pave the way to a future safe mobility society. 

 

With current commitments, CSRC has been allocated $115 million through 2026 for applied traffic safety research in topics related to driving behavior, crash avoidance, and crash injury mitigation. 

Researchers work with external stakeholders and other Toyota engineers in North America, Japan, and around the world to identify key research questions in areas such as human factors, crash data analysis, or biomechanics. They proactively identify external collaborators with relevant expertise in these fields and connect them with Toyota resources to deliver results of benefit to the industry and society. By having CSRC researchers in-house, new ideas are exchanged between the research teams and Toyota to enhance both the research output and future Toyota vehicles.  

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Safety Education

  • For Families & Children
  • For Everybody

Research showed that three out of every four car seats were installed improperly. And so, we partnered with experts at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to help create Buckle Up for Life, a program that educated the entire family on critical behaviors—like always buckling up and how to install a car seat the right way.

This program has produced real results—in one city alone, proper use of child car seats by program participants nearly tripled. Even better, the program has now expanded to cities all across the U.S. That’s a lot of families riding more safely.


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Along with continually searching for ways to make safe vehicles, we look to apply our safety insights for the benefit of everyone. And a big part of this commitment is our Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC). This state-of-the-art facility makes our knowledge and our technology readily available to researchers from major universities and safety institutes—and even other companies in the automotive industry.

One current focus at CSRC is to find ways we can help improve safety for people at each stage of life—from infants, to teens, to mature drivers. Creating safe cars is a good thing. Creating a safe society is even better.

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