Lexus Previews Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle [2013 CES]

This thing might look like something Doc Brown and Marty McFly might try gunning to 88 mph in the hopes of bending the space-time continuum, but it is, in fact, Lexus's big debut for next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The car is rather un-sexily named the Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle (AASRV) and it looks pretty much like a pre-2013 Lexus LS decked out in gear similar to what Google bolts onto its autonomous Toyota Priuses.  First Drive: 2013 Lexus LS460 / LS460 F Sport / LS600hL First Drive: 2013 Lexus ES350 Instrumented Test: 2013 Lexus GS450h Hybrid Lexus released a brief video—we're not kidding, it's five seconds—of the AASRV in motion, which we've included below, but did not elaborate much on the car's specifics. The video does get a caption that says that the "Lexus Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle is leading the industry into a new automated era." We're going to go ahead and assume that means all of the flux-capacitor-y stuff draped over the AASRV is there to enable at least a modicum of autonomous driving capability, as well as provide active safety assistance. We'll bring you more info next week, when we see the car in person at CES. from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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