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How Toyota's Self-Drifting Supra Could Make Your Next RAV4 Safer

What does drifting — i.e., the artof driving sideways around corners with smoke billowing from the tires— have to do with the future of self-driving cars? It's ahead-scratcher, but Toyota has an answer in the form of a self-drifting Supra.

In what Toyota Research Institute (TRI) saysis "a world first," a Toyota Supra programmed with autonomous driftingcapability successfully navigated a portion of the West track at California'sThunderhill Raceway while simultaneously avoiding obstacles on the course.

How Toyota's Self-Drifting Supra Could Make Your Next RAV4 Safer

In the hands of an experienced driver,drifting can be fun. Anyone who grew up where it snows, or has the fortune ofdriving a rear-drive vehicle or one with a handbrake between the seats, knowswhat a blast drifting is when it's done right.

So what's the deal with Toyota ResearchInstitute (TRI) building a Supra that can drift autonomously? That doesn'tsound like fun. But it is kind of cool. And there is a method behind theseeming madness.

Toyota worked with legendary drifter KenGushi, performance tuner GReddy, and the Dynamic Design Lab at StanfordUniversity to create the self-drifting Supra. TRI says it modified the Supra'smechanical components to simulate the specifications of a Formula Drift car.Further customization gave it computer-controlled steering, throttle,sequential transmission shifting and individual wheel braking. Using anonlinear model predictive control approach, TRI says it could apply the skillof a professional driver through autonomous driving technology programmed tooperate beyond the point of tire saturation.

Say what, now? That's just engineer-speakmeaning the Supra could autonomously skid in a controlled manner.

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  • 12/06/2022
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