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| Toyota to Exhibit at 13th World Congress on ITS Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that it will exhibit its latest ITS (Intelligent Transport System) technologies at the 13th ITS World Congress and Exhibition. to be held from October 8 to 12 in London, United Kingdom. Under the theme "Drive ITS Dreams", TMC will present, in an easy-to-understand way, its ITS activities in the areas of "Safety", "Environment" and "Comfort". TMC's exhibit will include a Lexus LS460 prestige luxury sedan equipped with - among other TMC initiatives in autonomous vehicular systems that use various onboard sensors and information communications technology - the latest version of TMC's Pre-crash Safety System, which features a driver-monitoring camera, millimeter-wave radar and a stereo camera fusion system. Videos will explain the development status of promising vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems that support safe driving practices by using wireless communication technology to gather information about traffic events beyond the view of the driver. Panel displays will clearly outline ITS technologies needed for both such autonomous vehicular systems and vehicle-infrastructure cooperative systems. Outdoors, congress participants will be able to experience TMC's newest Intelligent Parking Assist system, featuring the world's first (*2) commercial application of ultrasonic sensors (newly developed by TMC) to estimate the physical dimensions of a vacant parking space. The system is designed to support drivers in parallel and adjacent back-up parking maneuvers. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Exhibition News :: home page |