The Jaybridge team will take up residence at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) near MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's one of two multidisciplinary research centers developing AI, robotics and autonomous vehicle technologies in collaboration with nearby universities (the other's in Silicon Valley, near Stanford), which Toyota has put aside a cool $1 billion to support. And we could see the contribution of the TRI's newest staffers sooner than you might think.

While Toyota would obviously like to put autonomous cars on the road as soon as possible, it's always been of the mindset that any assistive tech born out of its research that improves driver safety should be rolled out to consumer vehicles as a priority.