Toyota Safety Sense on the Corolla Sport scores full marks at night

Japan's JNCAP results of 29 November 2018 gave the Corolla Sport full marks in a new test of braking for pedestrians at night under street lighting. It scored 122.4 of 126 points.

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    Pedestrians stand to gain, but JNCAP reports assessment scores and no crash outcomes.

Depth runs from 1, a convenience or time saved, to 5, a life or a livelihood preserved.

Status
Reported benefit.
Evidence

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An independent assessment report supports the benefit.

The system’s part
Not isolated. JNCAP tested the car with its system on and ran no test without it. MLIT's release does not describe the sensors or how the system recognizes pedestrians. Toshiba credits its Visconti 4 image processor's handling of luminance differences for better detection at night. It links deep neural networks to its Visconti series in general and to its next processor, Visconti 5. None of the documents shows that the detection in this car learns from data.
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Benefit type
Increased Product Safety
System
Toyota Safety Sense collision-mitigation braking (AEBS), as fitted to the Toyota Corolla Sport (2018)
Made by
Toyota
Used by
Toyota (standard on the Corolla Sport)
Where
Japan
Stage
In routine use
Date
, when the source was published
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events, Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
Collections
Scrutiny and findings
Last revised
1 November 2026

Sources

  1. Assessment report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), with the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims' Aid (NASVA). 平成30年度前期「自動車アセスメント」でトヨタ「カローラ スポーツ」が予防安全性能最高得点を獲得！ Press release, 29 November 2018. In English, the quoted passage says that the assessment added braking for pedestrians at night under street lighting and acceleration suppression for pedal misapplication from fiscal 2018 and that the Corolla Sport scored full marks in both.

    平成30年度より「対歩行者被害軽減ブレーキ(夜間街灯あり)」と「ペダル踏み間違い時加速抑制装置」の安全性能評価を追加。トヨタ「カローラ スポーツ」が双方満点を獲得

  2. Press release, by the makers.

    Toyota Motor Corporation. Corolla Sport, Equipped with Latest Toyota Safety Sense, Receives Top "ASV+++" Rating in JNCAP Preventive Safety Performance Assessment. News release, 29 November 2018.

    The Corolla Sport comes standard with the latest version of Toyota Safety Sense, featuring improved sensing functions and a pre-collision safety system that detects pedestrians during both the day and at night, as well as cyclists during the day.

  3. Press release, by the makers.

    Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation. Toyota Alphard/Vellfire with Toshiba's Advanced Image Recognition Processor Wins Japan's Highest Award for Preventive Safety Performance. News release, 11 June 2019, archived copy. Toshiba supplies its Visconti 4 image recognition processor for DENSO's front camera in Toyota vehicles. It names the Alphard/Vellfire, Crown and Corolla Sport among the Toyota models that scored highest in fiscal 2018.

    The LSI's ability to process luminance differences between objects and their backgrounds, realizing better detection of pedestrians at night and in low light conditions, helped the Toyota vehicles win high scores in assessment of collision avoidance braking for pedestrians.

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Workflow

Toyota Safety Sense was standard on every Corolla Sport. JNCAP tested braking for pedestrians at night under street lighting for the first time in fiscal 2018.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

Weather, surroundings and road conditions let the system work, since MLIT warns that it may not work fully in some conditions. The driver stays in control, since MLIT describes these devices as aids to the driver.

Entry details

Sector

Road vehicle crash avoidance.

Purpose

Toyota built the pre-collision system of Toyota Safety Sense to detect pedestrians and cyclists ahead and to brake to mitigate a collision.

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Cite this record

Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Toyota Safety Sense on the Corolla Sport scores full marks at night (AIBD-0966). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 1 November 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0966.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 7.0)

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