Toyota Safety Feature – SafetySense 2.0 Review

Your Toyota’s safety features are some of the most important to keep your family protected while driving. Even if you’re a confident driver, you can still be a victim of another driver’s errors, so advanced safety features are a great way to detect and alert you to danger before you see it coming. Most modern vehicles come with advanced safety systems that can detect oncoming traffic, alert you to objects behind you, and help you stay safe in your lane. With Toyota Safety Sense 2.0, you’ll have the most up-to-date tools to keep you safe while driving your Toyota vehicle.

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What Is Safety Sense 2.0?

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Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 is Toyota’s latest version of its comprehensive safety system, which includes such features as driver assist, advanced detection, and high-tech cruise control. These systems are designed to work together to keep you safe from collisions that could leave you injured, your car damaged, and others hurt. Safety Sense uses a forward-facing camera on your windshield along with millimeter-wave radar to keep an eye on your surroundings, approaching vehicles, your position on the road, road signs, and more. Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 is the latest in advanced vehicle safety technology and is standard in many new Toyotas.

Multi-Information Display

On the multi-information display, you’ll see visual alerts, signage, lane tracking, and other information connected with your vehicle’s Safety Sense system. In most Toyotas, this display is located on the instrument display area behind the steering wheel, where it’s easy to see without taking your eyes off the road. You can change the information displayed, scroll, and perform other operations on the multi-information display with the meter control switches that you can easily reach on your steering wheel. The screen can also display fuel stats, tire pressure, and other vehicle information that it’s good to keep track of.

Pre-Collision System

The pre-collision system is designed to help prevent frontal collisions with your vehicle. The system uses a forward-facing windshield camera and grille-mounted radar system that can detect approaching vehicles and bicycles. It will even alert you to pedestrians in low-light conditions when it can be harder to see people on crosswalks. If the pre-collision system detects danger, it prompts you to action through audio and visual alerts. In certain situations where the action is deemed extremely urgent to avoid a highly likely collision, automatic braking may be used to reduce speed and lessen or avoid impact.

Dynamic Radar Cruise Control

Safety Sense 2.0’s Dynamic Radar Cruise Control is an advanced system that lets you set your preferred highway cruising speed and uses the front camera and grille-mounted radar to detect a vehicle in front of you. It also automatically adjusts your speed to maintain a safe preset distance. An audio and visual alert lets you know if the car in front of you slows even more, and automatic braking may be applied if needed. Once the slower-moving vehicle has left or increased its speed, Dynamic Radar Cruise Control will return you to your set speed.

Lane Departure Alert

The Lane Departure Alert feature works by using your windshield-mounted front-facing camera to detect the edges of the lane on relatively straight roads. It can use the lane marking along with curbs or other distinct borders to judge your position in the lane and alert you if your vehicle starts to deviate or depart so you can safely correct its course. In addition, Toyota vehicles equipped with Safety Sense 2.0 that also have electronic power steering will be able to use Steering Assist to automatically make small corrective steering movements to keep your Toyota in its lane.

Lane Tracing Assist

Lane Tracing Assist is an additional feature available on some vehicles with Safety Sense 2.0. It works similarly to the Steering Assist feature but is used in conjunction with Dynamic Radar Cruise Control. Your front-facing camera is used to detect the lines of well-marked lanes along with the movements of any vehicle in front of you. Lane Tracing Assist then works with your Cruise Control feature to keep you at a safe distance behind the vehicle and centered within your lane by automatically implementing small corrective steering inputs.

Automatic High Beams

Nighttime can be a more dangerous time for drivers when reduced visibility is mixed with glaring traffic lights. With Safety Sense 2.0’s Automatic High Beam, you can worry less about forgetting to switch to low beam and accidentally causing glare for other drivers and spend all your attention focusing on the road. Automatic High Beam works by using an in-vehicle camera to detect headlights of approaching vehicles as well as taillights of any vehicles in front of you, and then automatically switching from high beam to low beam and back again when the traffic has passed.

Road Sign Assist

Have you ever been distracted and driven past an important road sign without seeing it? Hopefully not, but if you didn’t see it, how would you know? With Safety Sense 2.0’s Road Sign Assist feature, you’ll be able to get the information since your Toyota’s front-facing camera can read certain road signs and display them on the vehicle’s multi-information display screen, where you can see signs you may have missed or overlooked. Road Sign Assist is designed to read and relay the information on posted speed limit signs along with Stop, Yield, and Do Not Enter traffic signs.

Safety Sense 2.0 is Toyota’s latest package of safety features that are available on many of its new vehicles. These features will help keep you safe while driving to work, running errands around town, and enjoying a weekend road trip. If you’d like to know more about this or any other Toyota systems or want to look at some Toyota vehicles, then contact us at Longo Toyota in El Monte, California. You can call us at 626-377-9743 or stop by our dealership at 3534 N. Peck Road, which is open every day from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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