Automotive Engineering - June 2022 - 6

TECHNOLOGY
REPORT
SAFETY
Toyota reinvesting in collaborative safety research
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Over the last decade Toyota's CSRC has collaborated with a host of research partners, including the National Advanced
Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa.
To adapt to a swiftly changing mobility ecosystem,
Toyota announced in late April a new fiveyear,
$30-million investment in its Ann Arbor,
Michigan-based Collaborative Safety Research
Center (CSRC). Created in 2011, the CSRC focuses
on foundational safety research, and the
$85 million apportioned over its first ten years
funded research including the factors that lead
to distracted driving and developing tools and
testing procedures related to advanced driverassistance
systems (ADAS).
Since its inception, CSRC has completed 85
research projects with more than 30 different
institutions, the output of which Toyota shares
globally in the name of shared safety. " The
foundation of CSRC is built on collaborations to
tap outstanding safety researchers and institutions
throughout the country, " said Danil
Prokhorov, director of Toyota's CSRC and
Future Research Department (FRD). " We'll also
continue to publish our CSRC research discoveries
for others, to help foster societal benefit. "
The nine new projects will engage the expertise
of: University of Massachusetts - Amherst;
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University
of Michigan Transportation Research Institute;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
University of Iowa; Virginia Tech; and Indiana
University - Purdue University Indianapolis.
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The newly funded research will involve a wide
spectrum of safety issues, including:
* driver training
* vulnerable road user (VRU) interactions
* SAE Level-2 " non-driving " activities
* post over-the-air (OTA) feature-update
education
* intersection evasive-action trends
* predicting bicycle and e-scooter behavior
* considerations in human anatomical variation
when assessing post-crash injuries
" We are aligning with the next emerging
trends, " explained Jason Hallman, senior manager
for the CSRC. " Talking about safety systems
integrations, we're really asking what future
crashes will remain and what new opportunities
will be presented as we have an evolution and a
convergence of active and passive safety systems.
We're also asking what new tools are needed
as automation becomes a bigger component
of driving today. Particularly, as we think about
future automated vehicles and technology, what
tools do we need to evaluate passive safety. "
Mental models
To help characterize the types of diverse research
funded and supported by the CSRC,
Gregory L. Bradley, Esq.
Secretary
Judy Curran
Rhonda Walthall
Joan Wills
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