Toyota’s newly-developed Acceleration Suppression Function was designed to counter the misapplication of the accelerator pedal, and will launch in Japan this summer as part of an upgrade to the carmaker’s Safety Sense package.
The new tech will first be offered as an option on new vehicles in the Land of the Rising Sun, before making its way to other markets around the globe. The Japanese brand will also retrofit accelerator control systems in certain existing models sometime this year.
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As opposed to its older pedal misapplication acceleration control system, this new technology aims to control acceleration due to abnormal operation of the pedal even when no obstacles are present. All in all, Toyota believes it can also reduce the number of accidents caused by pedal misapplication in parking lots and other areas.
Toyota plans on sharing the operational logic of this function with other carmakers as well. One breakthrough came when the company managed to isolate instances where the drivers were genuinely required to rapidly accelerate intentionally, and identify and compute instances in which the accelerator was operated abnormally.
Acceleration suppression will join the likes of pre-crash emergency braking, automatic high beam dimming, lane departure warning, lane tracing assistance, road sign recognition and dynamic radar cruise control within Toyota’s Safety Sense bundle.
Later this year, Toyota will also move certain safety functions currently used by Lexus to mass-market Toyota brand nameplates – such as emergency steering assist or the driver emergency stop assist system.
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