Toyota builds a self-drifting Supra, for safety reasons of course

Toyota has reached a new milestone in the race to develop autonomous cars.

This Toyota Supra that you see in the photos, has been programmed to autonomously drift around obstacles on a closed track - an already impressive world first. But more astounding than that is the fact that the new technology is said being developed to improve road safety for all.

The technology, Toyota explains, extends the vehicle's operational domain to the very limits of its performance. Or, to put it in simpler terms, will allow the use of controlled, autonomous drifting to avoid accidents by navigating sudden obstacles or hazardous road conditions like black ice.

The self-drifting technology, said to be able to calculate a whole new trajectory for the car every 20^th of a second, and able to balance the car gracefully as it goes around the track, has been developed by the Toyota Research Institute in partnership with the Dynamic Design Lab at Stanford University, along with the support of automotive performance specialist GReddy and Drift Legend Ken Gushi.

Self-drifting Supra? Anyone?