Toyota released a video of an autonomous driving Supra dripping the course.Under development as emergency safety technology

TOYOTA Research Institute (TRI) develops an AI automatic driving system that drifts drifting with a FR -driven car like a professional driver.The reason is to participate in the D1 Grand Prix with this robot car ... Of course, when the car suddenly enters the spin motion, the risk avoidance behavior that the autonomous driving system can quickly regain the control of the car.To make it possible.Tesla saw many drivers at the intersection that many drivers would not stop completely with a pause sign, and taught them to manage them to FSD beta software.This is an example of the idea of driving an autonomous driving system in the same way as humans, and misunderstood what safety is.

Toyota, on the other hand, has the same idea of an autonomous driving system that drives in the same way as a human driver, but Toyota teaches a high -technique of drifting drift driving to the automatic driving system to ensure safety.Speaking of drifting driving, people who are influenced by a certain manga/animation love, a running method that intentionally slides the car sideways and turns the curve.However, as you can see from the way of running in the car rally competition, if the driver is competent, it will be a technique that can be cleared without difficulty even if you enter a rapid curve at a high speed, and it will be used to avoid crisis.

The published video shows how to automatically dodge pylons and other obstacles on the test course using a modified Toyota Supra.The driver's seat is not uninhabited, and a living driver is on board.However, this is just for emergency, and the driver is drifting without holding the steering wheel while drifting.

TRI started this project in collaboration with Stanford University's Dynamic Design Lab for about a year.

Researchers say, "If you face a slippery road for some reason, a professional driver may be able to choose a drift, but many of us are not a professional driver."It is programming a vehicle that identifies obstacles in a test course and automatically avoids it by drifting. "

With this technology, for example, when a car starts sliding horizontally on a snowy road or a frozen road of a bridge, it is assumed that the autonomous driving system controls the car by drifting and avoiding collisions. 。 The TRI Supra is equipped with computer -controlled steering, accelerator, clutch, transmission, and wheel individual brakes, which automatically generate a drift state and control them. It also uses suspension, engine, transmission, and safety devices that are close to formula drift specifications to collect data. Of course, various conditions are different from creating and controlling a drift state on a safe test course, and rebuilding a sliding car on a public road that is narrow and does not know what is around, for example. That's not the case that a car will show off autonomous driving and drift driving. However, Toyota plans to continue studying automatic driving technology "amplifying human abilities on the road" in extreme cases that exceed the limit of car ability. By the way, Toyota TRI announced in 2016 the development of an autonomous driving function called GUARDIAN ANGEL, "I picked up the steering from the driver at the moment I was about to reach an accident while driving." This automatic drift function seems to be a technology that has been developed by inheriting the DNA. Source: toyota