Toyota is bringing a sleek prototypical autonomous vehicle to this year’s 2018 CES tech conference. But the car certainly won’t be driving itself there. 

Similar to many automotive showings at CES, this vehicle, which the Toyota Research Institute calls the “Platform 3.0,” is not yet consumer-ready. But it does provide some insight into what some of the first completely self-driving vehicles might look like. 

Although concealing the vehicle’s many sensors and cameras is practically impossible, Toyota seems to have a done an impressive job integrating them into the car’s body (it’s unclear, of course, how well the systems work). Toyota’s designers gave this careful design effort the rather urbane name of “intelligent minimalism.” Read more…

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Toyota is bringing a sleek prototypical autonomous vehicle to this year’s 2018 CES tech conference. But the car certainly won’t be driving itself there. 

Similar to many automotive showings at CES, this vehicle, which the Toyota Research Institute calls the “Platform 3.0,” is not yet consumer-ready. But it does provide some insight into what some of the first completely self-driving vehicles might look like. 

Although concealing the vehicle’s many sensors and cameras is practically impossible, Toyota seems to have a done an impressive job integrating them into the car’s body (it’s unclear, of course, how well the systems work). Toyota’s designers gave this careful design effort the rather urbane name of “intelligent minimalism.” Read more…

More about Tech, Ces, Autonomous Cars, Toyota, and Car Of The Future