Toyota-CEO-Jim-Lentz
Toyota Not Too Keen On Autonomous Vehicles
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Toyota doesn’t want to jump on the autonomous bandwagon, they don’t even want to be center stage or be at the center front. At the Automotive News World Congress Toyota North America CEO said “Our belief is that a human driver must always be behind the wheel,”. Lentz revealed that a fully autonomous Toyota vehicle won’t arrive to market until at least 2023. Toyota doesn’t want self driving cars to take over the day to day driving tasks rather to use autonomous technology to enhance the driving experience, improve mobility and reduce accidents. Toyota will spend $1 billion dollars on AI and robotics research by investing in research centers based in Stanford and MiT. Lentz also added “We don’t see a day coming soon where you can just hop in the back seat, pull out your newspaper and scan the headlines while your car takes you to work,”. Toyota will introduce what it sees as driver assist technology over the next decade. Lentz isn’t too sure that Volvo’s declaration that autonomous technology will cut deaths to zero by 2020 will actually happen. “I’m not sure if 2020 is realistic, if there’s a way that we can override some poor decisions that are made, we are going to save a lot of lives and we won’t have accidents to begin with.” said Lentz.  Toyota-CEO-Jim-Lentz
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