Toyota recently announced a major breakthrough and update to the latest self-driving system Teammate, adding more advanced automatic steering, automatic lane change, advanced driving, advanced parking and other functions.
At present, Teammate's advanced driving is classified by SAE as Level 2, that is, "allowing drivers to hold the steering wheel without holding the steering wheel under certain conditions, just need to pay attention to the road conditions at all times", which is consistent with the current Tesla's autopilot level and can alleviate the driver's fatigue driving degree to a certain extent. In this way, consumers want to experience Level 2 self-driving, and Tesla is no longer the only option.
Under the supervision of the driver, Teammate's advanced driver can automatically accelerate, automatically brake, automatically steer, automatically stay in the lane, automatically change lanes, automatically follow other vehicles, and can also automatically guide the road when the traffic situation is more congested, and even automatically surpass the slower vehicles in front.
Teammate's advanced parking function can allow the vehicle to carry out a series of automatic parking actions, such as parallel parking on the side of the road, reversing into the garage and other actions, but it needs to be matched with the vehicle's 360-degree surround view, body camera and sensors, and the driver needs to always pay attention to whether there are obstacles around the body, so that the vehicle can smoothly carry out automatic parking action and avoid vehicle collisions.
Toyota also said that the new Teammate system will be installed for the first time in the second-generation Mirai model, and the LS 500h model of its luxury brand Lexus will also be equipped with a new Teammate system.