Toyota Names Five Winning Thought Leaders in 'Ideas for Good' Challenge
Published Monday, 23 May, 2011 by Blog Admin. Categories: News.
Starting last February, Toyota invited consumers to share their ideas on how to apply one of five specific Toyota technologies - Total Human Model for Safety [T.H.U.M.B.S.], Solar Power Ventilation System, Hybrid Synergy Drive [HSD], Advanced Parking Assist, and Touch Tracer Display - to a cutting-edge invention used outside of the auto industry. Approximately four months later, they had a total of 4,000 entries.
Toyota, of course, wanted to remain bi-partisan in the decision-making process. So, to evaluate the thousands of submissions, they brought in an independent panel comprised of the likes of WIRED magazine's…