Toyota to Offer $300-$635 Braking Safety Packages
Pre-collision braking, lane-departure alert, automatic high-beam headlights and adaptive cruise control are some of the technologies to be included in the new packages.
March 30, 2015
The Toyota RAV4 Hybrid and Lexus RX CUVs debuting at this week’s New York International Auto Show will usher in new low-cost automated braking safety packages, the automaker says.
The packages, costing $300 for Toyota compact cars, $500 for Toyota midsize and premium models and $500-$635 on Lexus vehicles, will be available for nearly all Toyota and Lexus models by the end of 2017.
“Pushing these systems across our lineup, as quickly as possible, can help protect people in the event of a crash,” Toyota Motor North America CEO and President Jim Lentz says in a statement. “More importantly, it will prevent some crashes from ever happening in the first place.”
The Toyota package for compact cars, dubbed Toyota Safety Sense C, will integrate the automaker’s camera- and radar-based pre-collision braking, camera-based lane-departure alert and automatic high-beam headlights.
The $500 package for midsize and premium models, Toyota Safety Sense P, adds a radar-based pedestrian pre-collision system as well as Toyota’s adaptive cruise control, which it calls Dynamic Radar Cruise Control. It uses a camera and millimeter-wave radar to detect vehicles ahead and determine an appropriate traveling distance.
The Lexus Safety System+ also includes the five aforementioned technologies and initially will be offered on the RX as well as four more models Lexus will announce later this year.
The RAV4 and Avalon will be the first Toyotas to get Toyota Safety Sense, with three more models to be announced in late 2015.
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