Toyota Camry-Hybrid Camry-Car Safety

Comprehensive Car Safety

Hybrid Camry features the most advanced active car safety technology ever offered by an Australian-built vehicle. So on the road it’s a car in which you and all occupants can feel genuinely safer in.

Equipped with Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management (VDIM) – Hybrid Camry is a symphony of pinpoint balance, poise and control. By deftly coordinating all Hybrid Camry’s world-class active safety functions, VDIM provides a higher degree of car safety and supreme handling in all conditions.

A Toyota first, Hybrid Camry's VDIM integrates Electric Power Steering (EPS) with Toyota's Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Anti-skid Braking System (ABS), Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD), Brake Assist (BA) and Traction Control (TRC).

Collective intelligence

Typically, car safety systems such as braking, steering, vehicle stability and traction control would function independently. But Hybrid Camry is not your typical car. It includes an intelligent Toyota-first safety system known as Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management, or VDIM for short.

VDIM manages these systems collectively, so that each is integrated and expertly managed. The system constantly assesses and effortlessly controls all the car safety functions to comprehensively guide the balance and handling of Hybrid Camry even in the most trying of conditions.
This means that on slippery roads, the car automatically applies resistance and assistance to steering torque to assist against a spin-out. Similarly, if you oversteer while cornering, causing your rear wheels to skid, VDIM instinctively applies the necessary corrective action. So you can feel assured in these conditions.

Intelligent decision-making

By integrating the control of these previously independent safety technologies, the system picks up a range of information about the car and the current driving conditions. Information including wheel rotation, how far the throttle is open and braking pressure on each of the four wheels is relayed, and constantly assessed. By comparing these sources of information, VDIM electronically adjusts the various car safety systems to make the car more responsive to you and the prevailing conditions - enhancing safety as well as overall dynamic performance.

For instance, if the system anticipates the potential for loss of traction or driver control, it will coordinate the required a combination of braking, acceleration and steering assistance and attempt to correct any potential situation, even before you sense any trouble. VDIM brings new levels of active safety for an Australian-built vehicle.

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Steering control

Hybrid Camry incorporates the precise control of an electronically controlled steering system. Stay in command of your vehicle in demanding conditions or tight cornering situations with pin-point steering control and intelligent VDIM integration.

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Steering control
ABS brakes

When you need to stop in a hurry, you’ll appreciate the benefit of Anti-skid brakes (ABS). By quickly pulsing brake pressure, ABS brakes avoid skidding, loss of control or locking up the brakes, and help you achieve optimum braking performance when you need to stop suddenly.

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ABS brakes
Brake system

A state-of-the-art electronically controlled brake system improves braking responsiveness in Hybrid Camry. By monitoring how quickly and forcefully the brake pedal is pressed, Hybrid Camry's brake system, Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD), provides lightning-fast response and compensates your brake force until the pedal is released.

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Brake system
SRS airbags

Hybrid Camry comes loaded with an impressive array of passive safety features throughout the car's cabin, including the surrounding comfort and protection of 6 SRS airbags.

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SRS airbags
Reversing camera*

For extra safety and visibility when reversing, Hybrid Camry comes standard with a reversing camera*. The car's camera offers a less obstructed view than traditional rear view mirror or a turn of the head, useful for reversing safely confident of a clear path behind. You'll also appreciate the extra visibility when judging a reverse into a tight parking space.

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Reversing camera*
Signature hybrid headlamps and LED tail lamps

Hybrid Camry has been built and designed to make a statement. On the road, uniquely hybrid finishes set the car apart from the crowd, while at the same time providing tangible safety and power benefits.
Signature blue headlamps distinguish the car from the front, while LED tail lamps make visibility safer for drivers behind you. LED (Light Emitting Diode) tail lamps are renowned for their improved visibility, faster response times and energy efficient use of power. Using less, while producing more– it's a defining theme that permeates throughout Hybrid Camry’s DNA.

Hybrid headlamps and tail lamps
Push-button start

Smart Start brings the same convenience of keyless entry to your ignition. Start your car at the push of a button without ever taking the key out of your pocket.

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Push-button start