Toyota announced that it will invest roughly $50 million over five years to launch and fund a safety research center at its Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, MI. The Collaborative Safety Research Center will include the University of Michigan as a charter partner, and will work with other research institutions, federal agencies, universities, hospitals, and Toyota researchers from North America and Japan. The research will initially focus on reducing the risk of driver distraction, and protecting teen, child, and senior populations, which account for 30 percent of U.S. traffic fatalities, according to the announcement.
Author: Erin Kutz
Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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