Pursuits
Toyota to Start Deploying Chips in Battle to Get Cars ‘Talking’
- U.S. vehicles to use communications systems starting in 2021
- Cable companies seek access to bandwidth Toyota plans to use
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Toyota Motor Corp. laid out plans to start putting short-range communications chips in U.S. vehicles in the next three years, staking out its position in a battle to make cars safer by getting them to “talk” with one another.
The third-best selling automaker in America will put the chips in Toyota and Lexus models in the U.S. starting in 2021, said Andrew Coetzee, group vice president of product planning for North America. The technology will enable cars to send data on their location and speed to surrounding vehicles and roadside infrastructure to curb crashes.