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Toyota Concept-i artificial intelligence tech due on roads from 2020

Toyota will start integrating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology into its road cars from 2020 and has previewed how the systems work with a new concept car.

Due to be unveiled at the Tokyo motor show, the four-seat Concept-i can assess its passenger’s wellbeing, mood and personal preferences, before adjusting how it operates to better suit them.

It does this by measuring the driver's body language, speech tones and use of language, and by drawing conclusions after monitoring the driver's social media posts and driving style. It then attempts to affect the driver's mood by altering his or her other senses. If the driver is upset, for instance, it could pump a fragranced mist into the cabin, change the interior light colours to more relaxing shades, warm or cool the seat or start a conversation.

Toyota said the car’s ability to react to driver behavior can help reduce fatigue and improve overall wellbeing.

The brand plans to test the systems for use in production cars from the start of the next decade, suggesting some of the technology could make it to market in the years that follow.

Toyota officials say that, as well as displaying AI era with a view to make manufacturing, the Concept-i additionally shows how a manufacturing EV should appearance whilst it's far released for public trials from 2020. Today, they envisage it having a 186-mile range from a charge, although they concede that figure can also upward push by the time the automobile makes production.

Toyota dedicated to bringing absolutely electric powered vehicles to mainstream, worldwide manufacturing remaining year, having previously talked down the generation in favour of hydrogen fuel cell advances. In part, the circulate turned into pressured through the Chinese authorities?S plans to set quotas of EV income that manufacturers ought to hit, and there are ongoing rumours that it can release a closely changed CH-R crossover in China in 2019 to satisfy the short-time period necessities there. However, for you to achieve its global EV dreams it announced a partnership with Mazda and components provider Denso in advance this yr.

Toyota Concept-i Ride and Concept-i Walk

Showing alongside the AI vehicle at Tokyo will be the Concept-i Ride (pictured above). This two-seat model is 2500mm long, 1500mm high and 1300mm wide, and is being shown alongside the Concept-i Walk, a three-wheel mobility device that can be operated on the pavement (pictured below, middle).

Those two concepts preview Toyota’s vision for small-scale personal mobility. The company describes them as boosting mobility for everyone, including the disabled and elderly, and demonstrating the benefits of shared mobility.

Toyota’s futuristic concepts focus on practical and clean transport, but it will also bring a driver-focused hybrid sports car to Tokyo, the GR HV Sports, to illustrate the thinking of its performance arm, Gazoo. The car features a unique H-pattern automatic gearbox lever.

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