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Toyota spends $1 billion to research cars that drive themselves

Summary of article:

Toyota Motor Corp. is spending 1 billion dollars to create a research institute on researching robotics technology to incorporate into cars. They would like to build cars that are able to drive themselves in order to improve driver’s errors and accidents from happening. They have planned to reduce the amount of deaths that have happened because of car accidents and allow elderly to be able have their cars without assistance of others. The research will start in January and they are hoping to invent the robot cars by 2020. There have been test runs and preparations for this invention to be created. Their goal is make these automated cars and prove that it can be successful in today’s world and can make cars more efficient to a larger age group.

By: Bloomberg

Published on Fri Nov 06 2015

Source: The Star

http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/11/06/toyota-spends-1-billion-to-research-cars-that-drive-themselves.html