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Ann Arbor engineers with Toyota develop app to help parents install car seats safely
Read full article: Ann Arbor engineers with Toyota develop app to help parents install car seats safelyIn 2019, Jennifer Pelky and Lindsay Babian were having lunch when they began talking about car seat safety. She called in the help of a colleague who was a certified child car seat specialist to install hers. Jennifer Pelky, Toyota principal engineer of vehicle performance development for interior safety, installs a car seat in the 2021 Sienna. Pharris, a mother of two and former marketing specialist for a leading car seat manufacturer, loved the idea. They can then select which seat they would like the car seat to be installed and enter the type of car seat they have.
Toyota engineers newest Sienna minivan remotely out of Ann Arbor
Read full article: Toyota engineers newest Sienna minivan remotely out of Ann ArborANN ARBOR, Mich. Right as Toyotas Research and Development team in Ann Arbor was set to put the final touches on the companys newest minivan in March, the state of Michigan shut down. Forced to work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ann Arbor team got to work finding innovative solutions for making adjustments to the new generation of Sienna from home. Team members were able to get an idea of the changes they needed to make, they just had to come up with ways of making them from home. (Toyota)The Ann Arbor team also had to switch to a paperless approval system to move the changes along faster. Members of the Ann Arbor team would work in tandem with teams in Indiana who could go into the plant and show the Ann Arbor engineers specific parts of the vehicle.