Toyota safety sense 2.0 vs 2.5

• Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ builds on TSS 2.0 with improved features.

• TSS 2.5+ can detect pedestrians and cyclists in low-light situations among other enhancements.

• The 2021 Camry and Highlander models receive TSS 2.5+ as standard.

Toyota has been offering a suite of advanced driving aid systems in its cars and trucks for a few years now, with the promise of reducing the number of injuries and fatalities on the road. Its latest generation of the package, called Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+, builds on the previous generation, called TSS 2.0, with updated software and new capabilities.

Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+, or TSS 2.5+, includes all the basic functionalities of the previous system roundup, but with more processing power and enhanced sophistication of the cameras, radar and computer systems used to make the brand’s vehicles safer.

In addition to forward collision warning that was already included with TSS 2.0, Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ features autonomous emergency braking, which not only detects the vehicle ahead, but also pedestrians and cyclists, either during daytime or in low-light conditions. Moreover, when the driver performs a left-hand turn, the system detects oncoming vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians, provides audio and visual alerts, and can ultimately apply the brakes if necessary.

The dynamic cruise control function has full-speed capability, which means it can follow preceding traffic—on city streets or on the highway—and bring the vehicle to a complete stop as needed. It can also anticipate a passing manoeuvre by accelerating when the driver approaches a slower-moving vehicle ahead, engages the turn signal and starts turning the steering wheel. The system thus reduces acceleration delay and will maintain the preset cruising speed. The dynamic cruise control can also reduce the vehicle’s speed if senses that the latter is entering a curve too fast.

As before, lane departure warning and lane-keep assist are included in Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+, which perform their duties more accurately with steering assistance, road-edge detection and lane-centring assist. If a pedestrian is detected in the vehicle’s trajectory, the system will activate evasive steering assist to avoid the person walking on the street, without nudging the vehicle out of its lane and causing an overlapping collision. Automatic high beams and road sign assistance are also part of the safety suite.

Toyota Safety Sense 2.5+ is fitted as standard on the refreshed 2021 Toyota Camry and Camry Hybrid, the 2021 Toyota Highlander—which is offering a new sporty XSE trim level and other enhancements—as well as the Highlander Hybrid. TSS 2.5+ will then be gradually integrated across Toyota’s vehicle lineup in the coming years.

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Toyota Safety Sense™: The Standard for Safety

Packed with active safety features, Toyota Safety Sense™ (TSS) is designed to help protect you and your passengers, and comes standard on many new Toyotas. Scroll down to see TSS in action.

Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection

This integrated camera and radar system is designed to help reduce the likelihood of colliding with a preceding car or pedestrian.

Also available with Bicyclist Detection

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Dynamic Radar Cruise Control

This high-tech cruise control uses radar behind the Toyota badge plus a camera on the windshield designed to adjust your speed, helping you maintain a preset distance from the car in front of you.

Also available with Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control

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Lane Departure Alert

A camera on your windshield may help you avoid the consequences of unintended lane departure by alerting you when it senses that you’ve veered from your lane.

Also available with Steering Assist

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Automatic High Beams

A camera on your windshield aids nighttime driving by using a camera to detect headlights and taillights of preceding vehicles, and toggling accordingly between high and low beams.

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Lane Tracing Assist

When Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC) is enabled and lane markers are visible, Lane Tracing Assist (LTA) uses the lines on the road and preceding vehicles to help keep the vehicle centered and in its lane.

*Available on TSS 2.0, TSS 2.5, TSS. 2.5+ and TSS 3.0 equipped vehicles.
*Available with Emergency Driving Stop System (EDSS) on TSS 3.0 equipped vehicles.

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Road Sign Assist

Using a forward-facing intelligent camera, Road Sign Assist (RSA) is designed to detect speed limit signs, stop signs, Do Not Enter signs and yield signs, and display them on the MID.*

*All vehicle actions must be driver-initiated and are not automated. Available on TSS 2.0, TSS 2.5, TSS 2.5+ and TSS 3.0 equipped vehicles.

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Proactive Driving Assist

When system operating conditions are met, using the vehicle’s camera and radar, Proactive Driving Assist (PDA) provides gentle braking into curves or gentle braking and/or steering support to help control distance between your vehicle and a preceding vehicle, pedestrian or bicyclist, or to help the driver stay within the lane.*

*Available on certain TSS 3.0-equipped vehicles.

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2022 Highlander

2022 Toyota Highlander is an IIHS TSP+.

2022 Camry

2022 Toyota Camry is an IIHS TSP+.

2022 Sienna

2022 Toyota Sienna is an IIHS TSP+

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