That’s incredible. Lexus doesn’t even really market their autonomous tech. They definitely need to trickle this technology down to the rest of their line up. It’s amazing that Tesla marketed themselves with autonomous driving while they have one of the worst scores.
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Tesla has attempted to thwart people from doing that in their software updates, but fully stopping hands-free driving is impossible short of handcuffing the driver to the steering wheel. That's why every system except Ford's was Marginal or worse on driver monitoring and none of them were Good.
Teammate is so limited that it might as well be invite only, or for internal use only. Not to discredit a win for Toyota, but as you said, until this system is widely offered and adopted, the win is mostly symbolic.
The bigger question is will there even be a next generation LS. Its become apparent that no one is cross shopping this with the current leader, the S class.
The ES replacement is happening since it was showcased alongside the now TX way back in 2021. That being said, sedans are tough market for the industry, but should be easier from internal sales pressure competition with the avalon nla.
The 2gr is eol moving forward as a primary propulsion system, and you can see what will be the successor based off the current lineup (refer to the RX).
