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Toyota and Lexus on Top of Consumer Reports Reliability Study


From Cars.com

Toyota and its Lexus luxury division topped Consumer Reports' 2015 annual reliability study (subscription required), but Audi climbed to a best-ever third place among the 28 brands ranked. The German luxury brand, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, had its best showing ever in CR's annual study, which the magazine claims to draw from a subscriber base with more than 740,000 vehicles.

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Toyota Pioneering Efforts Towards Hydrogen-Fuel Cell Vehicles Over Gasoline/Electric Powered Hybrids

Toyota to Phase Out Gas-Powered Vehicles, Doubling Down on Hydrogen

by Paul A. Eisenstein


Toyota Motor Co. wants to virtually eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles from its fleet by 2050, and is betting that hydrogen cars, rather than electric vehicles, will be the long-term answer.



The Japanese maker recently introduced the Mirai, its first retail fuel-cell vehicle, and though sales have so far been measured in the hundreds…
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Toyota Unveils Preview For Three New Concept Cars At Tokyo Motor Show

Toyota to Debut Three New Concept Cars at Tokyo Motor Show

Tokyo, Japan, October 8, 2015?Toyota will present its vision for the future of mobility at this year's Tokyo Motor Show, where three very different new concept cars will be revealed. While some of the vehicles slated to go on display represent the development and commercialization of groundbreaking new technologies, others seek to explore and strengthen the emotional bond between car and driver…
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Toyota Tests New 'Highway Teammate' Vehicle to Assist In Advancement of Self-Driving Vehicles

Toyota has been testing a new automated driving test vehicle called Highway Teammate, with the aim of launching related products by around 2020. In addition to demonstrating the capabilities of next-generation safety technologies, the vehicle represents Toyota's view of the evolving driver-car relationship in the age of artificial intelligence.

Toyota believes that interactions between…
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Self-Driving Technology Ready For 2020 Release

Toyota unveiled its vision for self-driving cars in a challenge to other automakers as well as industry newcomer Google Inc., promising to start selling such vehicles in Japan by 2020.

Toyota Motor Corp. demonstrated on a regular Tokyo freeway Tuesday what it called the "mobility teammate concept," meaning the driver and the artificial intelligence in a sensor-packed car work together as a team.

In the demonstration...
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Toyota Announces They Will Be Selling Cars That Can 'Talk' To Their Surroundings By End Of 2015

Toyota aims to become the first automaker to mass market talking cars—that is to say, vehicles that can receive and share data transmitted by external infrastructure and by other vehicles.

So-called “vehicle-to-infrastructure” and “vehicle-to-vehicle” communications are key to enabling autonomous cars because they provide essential safety information that sensors and cameras onboard vehicles cannot pick up.
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