Toyota probes self-driving safety issues

Jason Hallman, principal engineer for safety and crashworthiness at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America: "Let's go back to the drawing board. Let's think a little more about this." (HANS GREIMEL)

August 26, 2018 05:00 AM

DETROIT — For decades, automakers have studied what happens to people inside cars when the vehicles crash with an alert driver behind the wheel.

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