Chameleon car

摘要

As visions for better motoring go, it's hard to top Toyota's dream of a world with none of the bad things that come from cars — pollution and congestion — but lots of the good things, like excitement, comfort and, as the company's head of R&D Kazuo Okamoto, recently told journalists, 'zero traffic accidents'. Such a goal may sound preposterous, but engineers need dreams. And Toyota is under no illusion that it might reach its goal any time soon. Nor does it think that technology alone will do the job; safer mobility demands safer cars, safer driving and better roads. As Okamoto explained, the company's Today for Tomorrow slogan can be understood in the simple notion that taking action now is the only way to have a chance of realising any grand vision.