{"id":137221,"date":"2019-06-14T11:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=137221"},"modified":"2019-06-14T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:09:06","slug":"toyota-announces-new-features-for-2020-model-year-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/06\/toyota-announces-new-features-for-2020-model-year-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Announces New Features for 2020 Model-Year Line-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the 2020 model year, the Toyota plans to offer some upgrades across most of its vehicle line-up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Toyota Motor North America rolls out its vehicle line-up for the 2020 model year, they\u2019ll sport two new features: Automatic Engine Shut Off and Automatic Park, as well as have options for a few others.<\/p>\n

Starting with 2020 model year vehicles, Toyota will phase in an automatic park system, which is designed to help reduce the risk of roll-away vehicles.\u00a0The feature will be available in vehicles with an electronic means of shifting and\/or applying the parking brake.<\/p>\n

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News Now!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will automatically shift the vehicle into the \u201cpark\u201d position and\/or apply the electronic parking brake, in the event the driver exits the vehicle without placing the vehicle in \u201cpark,\u201d Toyota officials said.<\/p>\n

Toyota vehicles come with audible and visual warnings if the vehicle isn\u2019t in park. In addition, Toyota vehicles with non-traditional, stick-style shifters have a separate button marked with a P to reduce confusion.<\/p>\n

(Toyota, SoftBank preparing launch of self-driving venture. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The automatic engine shut off or \u201cAuto Shut Off\u201d\u00a0with an enhanced audible and visual warning will be added to its Smart Key System.<\/p>\n

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Toyota is offering new safety-oriented tech in most of its 2020 model-year vehicles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The\u00a0Auto Shut Off\u00a0feature will automatically shut off the engine after a pre-determined period of time in the event the vehicle is left running.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for details\u00a0about Toyota partnering with Subaru to accelerate its EV program.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The automaker also plans to offer additional enhancements will including smartphone app as an alert in the future.<\/p>\n

Currently, Toyota vehicles issue a two-step alert to notify the driver that the engine is running and requests engine to be turned off. Toyota has included this feature since the introduction of smart key system in 2003.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Toyota\u2019s to\u00a0unleash flood of 19 new products,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Toyota noted in its announcement that the new features will help maintain the company\u2019s tradition of technological innovation, observing it introduced the Toyota Safety Sense and Lexus Safety System+ packages\u00a0with automatic emergency braking\u00a0\u2013 standard believing that making\u00a0the\u00a0technologies standard\u00a0was not only beneficial but also would boosts customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Toyota Motor North America rolls out its vehicle line-up for the 2020 model year, they\u2019ll sport two new features: Automatic Engine Shut Off and Automatic Park, as well as have options for a few others. Toyota will also phase in an automatic park system, which is designed to help reduce the risk of roll-away vehicles. Details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":135721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,12],"tags":[],"make":[111],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,123,299,132,125,137,139,291,206,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137221"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=137221"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=137221"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=137221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}