Toyota Kirloskar Motor today conducted the Toyota Safety Education Programme (TSEP), a traffic safety initiative, at the Delhi Police Public School, 4, Safdar Jung Enclave, New Delhi. TSEP is an interactive learning programme on road safety, designed especially for school children in the age group of 6-12 years.

TSEP was launched as a pilot project in 2007 in Bangalore followed by its launch, in 2008, across metro cities namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. In Delhi, the programme was launched by the Honorable Chief Minister of Delhi,Mrs. Sheila Dikshit , in the presence of the Joint Commissioner of Police-Traffic, Delhi, Mr. S.N Shrivastava and Managing Director of Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Mr. Hiroshi Nakagawa. Since then Toyota has conducted this programme in 28 schools in Delhi, in addition to 117 schools in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore respectively. The programme has reached out to over 2,30,000 school children in these cities in the past 3 years and will gradually extend to other cities across India in the coming years.

The programme was initiated to

• Create awareness about traffic safety amongst school children
• Train school teachers in Traffic Safety Education Programme through a one day training programme
• Participate in government initiatives to create awareness about traffic safety.

Sharing details of the programme, Mr. H. Nakagawa, Managing Director, TKM, said, “Toyota has been actively engaged in a spectrum of activities specially designed to educate people on traffic safety. Considering that children and young adults are the most vulnerable to road accidents, Toyota in India has initiated the Toyota Safety Education Programme or TSEP. Toyota aims not only to sensitize school children to road safety but also hopes to make our future generations, better motorists.”

“Now in its fourth year TSEP is slated to cover over 1,00,000 school children across the metro cities. We plan to conduct the programme in 150 schools this year. To sustain this initiative we have also trained 250 school teachers and will continue to do so. This is a long-term initiative and commitment, aimed at creating a society that has better road sense,” stated Mr Narender Kukreti,Deputy General Manager, TKM.

As a part of this endeavor, Toyota has participated in the road safety week in collaboration with the Traffic Police Department in the metro cities. TSEP has also conducted special activities – painting and drawing competitions – at the Toyota dealerships.

Details of the Toyota Safety Education Programme

The Traffic Safety Interactive Course educates children on road safety through interactive classroom sessions. The course is made up of two interactive modules that will be handled by a trained instructor. This activity is specially designed for the children in the age group of 10-13 years. The first module contains information pertaining to the current traffic rules and regulations while the second module contains information about basic guidelines to be adhered by drivers while on road along with an interactive quiz for the children.

The animation film uses a much popular mascot Traffy to teach young children to adhere to traffic rules and its importance in avoiding accidents. Traffic conditions of the present and the future, in the absence of traffic safety are seen through the eyes of Aki and Maya, the two main characters in the film. They are guided by Traffy, in their efforts to create a ’safe roads’.

Traffic Safety Games educates school children on traffic safety through fun and learning. The game will include puzzles, card games and board games etc.

Traffic safety booth/display area will display messages and visuals on traffic safety. School children can visit the stall and learn more on traffic safety during the school hours.

Computer Game on Traffic Safety imparts education to school children on traffic safety through virtual simulation. The computer games are available on a CD. Puzzles,card games and board games have also been introduced, to evoke interest in road safety through fun learning.

Source: http://www.toyotabharat.com/inen/news/traffic_safety.asp

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Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd, in conjunction with Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan its nationwide dealer network and CII, has introduced a unique training initiative – The Toyota Technical Education Programme (T-TEP) – at the CII National Centre Of Excellence, Chhindwara .Mr Shekar Viswanathan, Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd , Mr. Jiro Suzuki, General Manager, TKM, and Mr. Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman, CII Skill Development Sub Committee & Managing Director -Cummins Generator Technologies & Mr. B. S. Khargaonkar, Chairman, CII Madhya Pradesh State Council & Executive Director, Force Motors Ltd. were present at the occasion.

T-TEP in India is a special training module launched in 2006. In its first year it was introduced in Delhi, at Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Industrial Training Institute followed by 3 other institutes. So far, 17 Institutions have been covered under the program in a span of 4years.

• 2006-Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hubli.
• 2007- Bangalore, Pune, Cochin, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad
• 2008- Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Jaipur and Jalandhar
• 2009 – Indore Mumbai and Delhi.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd, with this special training module aims at enhancing the skill sets and employability of the students, at the vocational training institutes in the country. TKM in partnership with CII has customized the T-TEP Program, to suit the special needs of the rural youth of Chhindwara. Through this customized program upto 100 students/year will undergo the T-TEP training. T-TEP will support the Vocational Training Institutes in the country to develop highly skilled young talented technicians enabling them to enhance their career in the automotive service industry. Technical manpower currently available in the Indian automotive service industry, is characteristic of low skill levels and is not trained for repair and diagnostics of the latest models of vehicles available in the market. T-TEP hopes to overcome these shortcomings by partnering with vocational training institutes and industry bodies like CII.

Mr. Shekar Viswanathan, DMD, Commercial Division, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd, commented “This partnership with CII will enable us to provide the latest automotive service training to the rural youth of Chhindwara and surrounding areas.This will also benefit our dealer fraternity. We wish to expose the students to latest service techniques used in the automotive industry, which will go a long way in enhancing their capabilities and give a boost to their careers.”

In 2009, TKM has partnered with 3 technical training institutes -

• Sir C. V. Raman Industrial Training Institute, Delhi
• Industrial Training Institute, Nandanagar, Indore
• Fr Agnel Technical Institute. Bandra (W) Mumbai.

The T-TEP curriculum has been customized especially for the CII National Center of Excellence to suit the needs of the rural youth for short term vocational training to enhance their skills and careers. Toyota’s team of trainer’s worked extensively with the experts from CII to design a curriculum for a duration of 3 months. Toyota has setup classroom and practice facilities essential for a conducive learning environment.. Toyota dealerships carry out weekly, on – the – job training, spread over a period of 2 months, in order to give the students a first hand feel of Toyota’s technology and service systems. As a part of T-TEP, TKM has recruited instructors from Chhindwara area, who can understand the concerns of the students better and amend the training curriculum in accordance with their specific requirements.. The Instructors have been trained at Toyota’s state of the art facilities in Bangalore. TKM will extend this partnership to other technical institutes in the coming years and plans to reach out to over 700 students every year.TMC and TKM will together fund th project in addition to providing T-TEP hi-tech training packages and Toyota service training manuals and materials.

T-TEP supports Toyota’s comprehensive human resource development system that extends from the training at T-TEP institutes to recruitment and development at Toyota dealerships. However, if the students wish to join other companies, they are free to do so.

The effectiveness of T-TEP is widely recognized across the globe. Toyota has introduced this program in 53 countries, which include USA, Australia, Italy, South Africa, China, Vietnam and India. T-TEP has been implemented in 420 institutes across the 53 countries.

Source: http://www.toyotabharat.com/inen/news/program_technical.asp

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Imagine a fog-shrouded morning when you cannot see the end of your driveway let alone the road you’re about to drive. Wouldn’t it be great if the sides of the road could magically appear on your windshield?

It’s not magic, and it’s not far away either.

General Motors R&D and several universities are working on a system that would use data gathered from an array of vehicle sensors and cameras and project images generated by compact ultra violet lasers directly onto the entire surface of the windshield,

“We’re looking to create enhanced vision systems,” says Thomas Seder, group lab manager-GM R&D. His team is working with Carnegie Mellon University and The University of Southern California, as well as other institutions, to create a full windshield head-up system leveraging night vision, navigation and camera-based sensor technologies to improve driver visibility and object detection ability.

“Let’s say you’re driving in fog, we could use the vehicle’s infrared cameras to identify where the edge of the road is and the lasers could ‘paint’ the edge of the road onto the windshield so the driver knows where the edge of the road is,” Seder said.

Enhanced vision systems are a 21st Century take on Head up display technology that GM was the first to market in 1988. Designed to help keep driver attention on the road ahead by displaying important information such as vehicle speed, lane change indicator status and vehicle warning messages directly into the driver’s field of vision, head-up display systems are currently available on the GMC Acadia, Chevrolet Corvette, Buick LaCrosse and Cadillac STS.

Scientists and lab technicians at GM’s global research and development in Warren, MI, are now developing next-generation head-up systems that could transform the everyday windshield into a device that can make driving even safer. While the full windshield head-up system has not yet been identified for a future GM vehicle program, Seder says some of the supporting technologies could end up in GM vehicles in the near-term future.

Coated with a series of transparent phosphors which emit visible light when excited by a light beam—in this case from a compact laser—the windshield becomes a large area transparent display, instead of current HUD systems that use only a small portion of the windshield.

The ability to use such an expansive surface enables the system to alert drivers of potential dangers that may exist outside of the normal field of vision—including children playing or motorcycles passing.

On that foggy day, maybe worsened by sleet or snow, the enhanced vision system could combine night vision with the head-up system to identify and highlight the precise location of animals roaming along the side of the road that could have avoided recognition with the naked eye.

“This design is superior to traditional head down display-based night vision systems, which require a user to read information from a traditional display, create a mental model and imagine the threat’s precise location in space,” Seder said

As an added safety feature, the head-up system can be combined with automated sign reading technology, similar to the Opel Eye system that debuted on the 2009 Opel Insignia, to alert the driver if they are driving over the posted speed limit or if there’s impending construction or other potential problems ahead. Additionally, the system can use navigation system data to alert the driver of their desired exit by reading overhead traffic signs.

“We have done testing on a number of drivers and their performance is better relative to head-down systems that are commonly used in vehicles today,” Seder said. “It’s a compelling design.”

Source: http://publish.media.gm.com/content/media/us/en/news/news_detail.brand_gm.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2010/Mar/0317_hud

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