Team Toyota

The McCarthy's of Lake Tahoe had their Toyota Prius broken into last week by a mischievous black bear. It's bad enough that we have to worry about humans stealing cars, but when mother nature gets involved perhaps it shows we're headed in the right direction when marketing green autos.

The McCarthy's called for help by contacting the Sheriff's department, but as soon as their call ended, the car was gone.

The car rolled 80 feet down the owner's driveway, across the street, and only stopped after it knocked into the neighbor's deck. Once…

Toyota is taking a full frontal attack on car accidents. Among the many advanced safety features Toyota is currently developing are: a pop-up hood designed to significantly reduce the impact when a car hits a pedestrian; light-blocking technology aimed at shielding drivers from the blindingly bright high beam lights of oncoming traffic; and a heart-attack-sensing steering wheel. The feature we want to discuss today, however, is one which Toyota recently demonstrated at a media event in Japan: a new crash-avoidance technology.

The innovative pre-collision steering technology literally, and automatically steers drivers clear of imminent accidents for which there isn't…