pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag"Safety/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/tech/" rel="tag"Tech/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lexus/" rel="tag"Lexus/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pa href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090309/ANA03/903090355/1189"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/03/toyota_radar_580.jpg" //abr /br /Two new JDM Toyota safety technologies are likely to arrive on future a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lexus/"Lexus/a models in the United States. The first is a system that uses a millimeter-wave radar to detect objects in the vehicle's path. When obstructions are noted, the driver is alerted by an indicator or a sound. If the pending collision is imminent, a pre-crash system activates the brakes, removes slack from the seats belts and then deploys the airbags. br /br /The second system involves the seats themselves. If an imminent rear-end collision is detected, the seat backs will automatically return to an upright position. In addition, seat belts will tighten and the headrests will move forward to help prevent whiplash. Both innovations are planned to arrive soon on Japan-market vehicles from a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/"Toyota Motor Corporation/a, so it's expected that these technologies will likely debut on upcoming Lexus models in the States.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090309/ANA03/903090355/1189"Automotive News/a, sub. req'd]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/12/toyotas-collision-detecting-radar-system-could-come-to-lexus/"Toyota's JDM collision-detecting radar system could come to Lexus/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:31:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/12/toyotas-collision-detecting-radar-system-could-come-to-lexus/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1482253/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/12/toyotas-collision-detecting-radar-system-could-come-to-lexus/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TpqiH7j7k-kKkuvRuyR2qbB2SJ4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/TpqiH7j7k-kKkuvRuyR2qbB2SJ4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=6i4-zWnf-xU:nAKCEtA1-JE:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=6i4-zWnf-xU:nAKCEtA1-JE:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=6i4-zWnf-xU:nAKCEtA1-JE:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=6i4-zWnf-xU:nAKCEtA1-JE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/6i4-zWnf-xU" height="1" width="1"/

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