safetytoyota.com

For developing safe vehicle bodies and occupant protection devices.

Toyota conducts its own accident investigations and also collects a great deal of accident data from both inside Japan and abroad, utilizing this information to create safe vehicles.
Moreover, by running computer simulations of collisions and repeating crash tests using more than 1,500 actual vehicles per year, Toyota has been pursuing safe body structures and developing occupant protection devices, in order to design cars that can minimize injury.

Toyota's safety research facility where a wide range of tests are performed.

Toyota's safety research facility is massive, with a building area of approximately 39,000 m2, a total floor area of approximately 44,000 m2, and is 280-m long and 190-m wide (at the widest point).

The all-weather type collision test center consists of two barrier-collision lanes and a car-to-car collision lane. The latter can accommodate car-to-car collision tests involving 2-ton vehicles at a maximum speed of 140 km/h, as well as car-to-car collision tests at a 15-degree offset angle and with different speeds.

Inside the collision test center, various tests can be carried out that replicate actual rollover accidents, such as trip-overs and fall-overs.

These tests enable Toyota to evaluate its cars more thoroughly by reproducing a wider variety of accidents than ever before.