Mar. 26, 2010
TMC Adds Environmentally Friendly Driving Course to Safety Program
Tokyo―TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) announces that on April 1 its safety education center "mobilitas" at Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, will add a course on environmentally friendly driving.
The new course will use the center's flat and wide-open areas, as well as its low-friction section, to teach businesses and organizations how to improve everyday fuel efficiency, mainly through smooth acceleration and using anticipatory driving techniques to avoid wasteful manoeuvring.
TMC has reaffirmed its commitment to customer safety as its top priority, based on the view that realizing a society free of traffic casualties requires an integrated effort encompassing people, cars and the traffic environment. At the same time, TMC is actively involved in a variety of traffic-safety awareness activities, including an annual traffic-safety event for children at "mobilitas".
Dates |
To meet reservations |
Time |
9:30 to 12:30 or 14:00 to 17:00 |
Fee |
10,500 yen per person (including taxes) |
Number of participants |
6 per session (minimum 3) |
Reservation |
Via telephone: 0800-123-0250 (toll-free within Japan) |
Further information |
http://www.toyota.co.jp/mobilitas/ (Japanese language only) |
Orientation (classroom) |
Overview of course and environmentally friendly driving |
Practice driving |
Warm-up session to get used to the vehicle and track |
Current fuel efficiency |
Measuring fuel efficiency of participants' current driving technique |
Environmentally friendly driving |
Checking driving posture, practicing smooth acceleration, learning to acquire smooth driving balance and anticipatory driving techniques |
Post-training fuel efficiency |
Measuring fuel efficiency of environmentally friendly driving |
Summary |
Distribution of handbook on environmentally friendly and safe driving |
