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hi I'm addy with the verge and we're here at CES with Toyota's autonomous car concept so this isn't a self-driving car what it is is essentially a system that detects objects can tell where other cars are people are and then it's supposed to be able to use this to warn people when something is going to happen so up here you have a lidar sensor that's laser and radar and it's going to sort of Bradley detect what's in the surroundings and then underneath it there are gyroscopes and accelerometers that are going to narrow that down they're saying from you know about three meters to three millimeters below that you have two white discs which are GPS sensors so that's going to be able to tell you both where the car is and they're staggered so you can tell what direction it's turning under that there are radar sensors and some cameras the radar is for hard objects and the cameras are for quote fleshy objects some cars already have these camera systems they're in safety and automatic pedestrian detection systems but this basically is the next step in that so you've got some up there at the top looking straight ahead and then two down there that looked out to either side left and right right now what this is doing is being used essentially on a test course to gather information so then it can tell what goes in the next step in safety systems when we talk to people here they really don't think that cars are going to be driverless they've said that this is supposed to be a co-pilot system