New 2026 Toyota Camry vs the World’s Toughest Self-Driving Test!

50 thoughts on “New 2026 Toyota Camry vs the World’s Toughest Self-Driving Test!”

1. Amazing test! Keep testing the self driving stuff!

2. Lane tracing is great, like autopilot for tesla. Lane departure is just bouncing you around until it doesn't and is not a self driving feature, almost useless. Don't know why he can't differentiate that. Not similar in any way

3. I have a 2025 Toyota XSE with the premium plus package. I think you guys are too harsh. Toyota never said it is autonomous. It just “assists” in safety areas with the driving safety features. They say that and I even had to sign an agreement that it’s only for assisting and to never take your hands off the steering wheel. It’s not an autonomous car. It’s still a fantastic quality car. The Camry has been the best selling car in America for many years for a reason. Toyota has been and is doing something right. They only use proven technology.

4. Compare this system to the system in the Honda accord or civic! These are huge important points for me, like how well it stays in lane and stuff for long drives!

5. I've had one of these Camrys for a year now, and it will pick up cracks and tar stripes on the road, along with the white lines. And when it sees more lines than the two white lines, it gets confused and you might have to steer more. 19:15

6. Self driving should be = Hands free & foot free only. Its been to be on par with GM Cruise or Tesla

7. This feature has been around for years. My 2020 accord has this feature.

8. LDA in Toyota will pogo stick from side to side if you take your hands off the wheel. The LTA keeps it centered

9. You guys need to try open pilot Comma 4. You don't have to put your hands-on the steering wheel at all. No nagging.😂

10. I’ve had a Camry for over a year and I swear to this day I can’t grasp what all the damn acronyms are. The only toggle I regularly use is radar cruise.

11. It just needs LCA.

12. PDA is quite different from LDA and LTA. It assists in slowing down the vehicle when entering turns and if you aren’t braking early enough it will start to brake for you. Lane Departure Alert is mostly letting you know when you drift out of your lane with a little haptic feedback thru the wheel when it happens. Lane Trace Assist is the one that does the bulk of the steering. Depending on the model and version of TSS, the hand on alert can be controlled by torque resistance or capacitive touch. The Grand Highlander has capacitive touch but only on the outer rim. The inner rim will not register. Also some vehicles with TSS 3.0 or higher have LCA which allows the system to change lanes on the highway.

13. Too many warnings

14. Why is Roman so unhappy? And I encourage Roman to re-think his statement that "The Japanese gave us this". The features are built into the car by the amazing team at TMMK – in Georgetown, Ky!

15. A 20 minute video could have been more useful if it was preceded by reading the manual so you could be more enlightening than "this is confusing I don't know what it is doing". This felt like my brain when I tried to figure the system out on the road in a rental Corolla. A few 100 km in it was fine. So familiarize yourself with the doodads before taking it out of park. Got it!

16. I picked up my 2025 Camry got up on the freeway put on distance cruse control and because it had lane keep assistance it was basically driving itself

17. My 2005 has lane departure warnings…. called GRAVEL SIDE OF THE ROAD. Look out the clear front windshield!

18. To be the "Toughest" challenge, and also be a real world challenge, you need to include something like, for example, a fuel/recharge in the middle of the trip, so as to assess the systems ability to navigate the departure from a highway, the merging onto a highway, driving on local roads, and parking lot/gas/recharge station navigation. Because those are all needed if the vehicle is claiming to be self-driving.

19. I miss truck videos

20. This is good testing! Would love to see how other cars stack up with more current models and future models of vehicles!

21. You guys should test the Hands-Free driving on the new 2026 Outback Touring/XT

22. I no longer use lane keep because of the yelling even if I have my hands on the wheel.

23. If Toyota wanted to have a hands-off system, they should have partner with Tesla. Know Toyota they will be the last to implement hands free. They always play it safe!

24. Is it especially noisy in the Camry? It sounds way louder than your average drive test.

25. Lane trace assist is a camera behind the rear view mirror. The tunnel exit caused typical video camera flare that blotted out the lane markers momentarily. Same thing happens with shadows or low sun as the road turns.
    We have a sienna with the identical system and it makes highway road trips nearly effortless, especially in stop and go traffic, because it automatically brakes and accelerates with radar.
    However, radar stops working with a tiny coating of slush on the Toyota badge on the nose, so beware in driving in snow.
    For the money it's an awesome system and I'm still sore at Ford for making it an expensive package that is only available on the maverick lariat.

26. I either disabled or just haven't used any of these nannies yet on my 2025 Lexus ES350 UL. It has more of them than I know what to do with. The RCD system is a bit scary. Even with the brakes applied it still jams on the brakes all by itself and far too aggressively.

27. My 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid limited is light years ahead of this Camry when it comes to hands free driving… All these cars need eye detection at a minimum…

28. you guys should learn how the system works before filming a video… it works better than you realize

29. did you guys do a v14 tesla test? must have missed it

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31. -@-7:39min i`~Noticed Something behind Andre, Lol

32. Bro this isn't no self driving . It's just a glorified smart cruise control that stats in lane.

33. People who can't or won't drive themselves should stay home or find another mode of transportation. Don't risk your own or someone else's life!

34. Maybe it’s something where you need to build confidence over time, but I find the Camry’s self-driving capabilities to be very high because they inspire a lot of confidence.

    Check the NHTSA’s report. The 2023 Corolla was the only ADAS to dead stop successfully from 62mph. The Camry uses the same system.

35. Had one as a rental and tried the cruise on a winding mountain road. To my surprise it steered around curves and would even slow down to maintain control.

36. The hand gestures, lol

37. Porsche charges for stuff that comes free on the GTI and Porsche and VW are the same company. I'm surprised Porsche doesn't charge extra for cup holders.

38. There is a company called comma , which they attach a unit behind the rearview camera and the unit had two cameras one for the road and one for the driver and it connects to the ADAS system it’s enables hands-free driving and it comes with the software built-in and over the air update it is a specific for the model for the car and you can purchase it online.

39. Lane Tracing assist/lane centering keeps you in the center of the lane. Lane departure only engages if you are about to leave the lane.
    The red warning of lane tracing assist unavailable is basically it asking you to add torque to the steering/keep your hands on the wheel. the lane tracing/lane centering is still on, as long as the lane displayed is green, not white. even if you keep your hands off while it warns you, it will stay on. it will then resort to beeping, but will still stay on. after a couple of seconds of beeping though, it will turn off until you get your hands back on.

    It definitely is not autonomous driving, but on long journeys, heck even on highways and freeways in the city, it just takes away 90% of my fatigue. and it is free, so i think it is great. as far as free systems go, I believe hyundai/kia systems let you keep your hands off for the most amount of time, which is like a couple of minutes, and it also has less errors on curvy roads, as per my experience and reviewers' like thestraightpipes also concur.

40. I view the Toyota systems as driver assistance, not self driving. It reduces fatigue when driving. The acronyms are nuts, way too confusing.

41. A few words about ADAS systems. "Sheesh." Yes, some people don't like them — "whatever floats your boat." They are "tools" you can use or not, as you wish. I've been using Toyota's Safety Sense 2.0 system for about 8 years, and I definitely find them useful and helpful. The "lane keeping" (lane centering) function WILL go around curves just fine — to a point. I have certainly found curves that were "too tight" for it to keep up with, and other situations when the amount of curves and the speed limit in that area were a bit too much for me to be comfortable with — and then I either turn it off, or "take over" and steer the vehicle through that area. It's not really a matter of "good or bad" — it's just like when you need a "wrench rather than a hammer" — is it a tool "fit for purpose" or not, in any given situation? It's like with "slow freeway traffic" — if the traffic keeps moving, lane centering and adaptive cruise control work VERY well, compared to grumbling about how the other drivers can't keep a steady speed. "Let the car do that work for you." But when traffic actually STOPS time and time again — then it's far easier to just drive the car yourself. And so on.

    As for others who scoff at how "behind the times" Toyota and other manufacturers might be, well, ALL OF THESE OTHER COMPANIES AREN'T TRYING TO DEFINE THEMSELVES AS "ROBOT" COMPANIES. These companies ARE NOT billing themselves as "automated driving" companies, and these are NOT "automated driving" systems. And perhaps that's a problem with the whole concept of this "testing." No, these ARE NOT "automated driving" systems, they are "Advanced Driver Assistance Systems." So, perhaps TFL needs to decide that vehicles are in one category or another — test ADAS systems against each other, and not dump them into the land of systems truly sold as "automated driving" systems.

42. A bit of criticism: It was obvious that Andre wasn't familiar with quite a lot of the systems in this Camry — so, do you want to test "how easy is it to learn what it has and how it works without reading about any of it in the owner's manual," or do you want to "judge and rate vehicles," even when you don't really know how the things work in each vehicle? I think the driver SHOULD have enough experience with the vehicle and its ADAS systems before jumping into a vehicle and "testing" those systems. If, indeed, you want to make a serious attempt at "rating" various vehicles that you so-called "test." Yeah, I understand you may not have so much time with any given vehicle, but still. If you're going to do this stuff, please learn how the vehicles work before "testing" them.

43. I have a Corolla with Toyota safety sense 3.0. It works great except in bad weather. It has a harder time seeing what’s in front of me than my 2018 Volkswagen did. And the way it splits up the different driving assist features I think is actually helpful because I have PDA — proactive driving assist— turned off because I think it’s too invasive

44. I have the same car a 2025 Camry SE AWD hybrid with these same features.I agree with Roman Toyota system for lane keeping is not much use & annoying compared to my Wife's 2020 Kia Soul which I don't have to touch the steering whell for up to 3.5 Kilometers on the highway. Active cruise I really like on the Camry but lane assist is waste of time & money. Hyundai ,Kia system is far superior but Toyota has better built cars. Can't seem to get everything in 1 car these days.

45. There is nothing wrong with the system, TROLL!

46. If you hit the brakes the system disengage and you have to restart it again If you want the system to drive itself and stay centered in the lane

47. I drive 25 miles to work and 25 back home On the way back home, I am tired from working and I use these systems to drive me and it takes a lot of stress off of me to drive I just keep both hands on the steering wheel on the bottom where they can rest and let the car drive itself It breaks it speeds up it slows down and it stops and if traffic moves within 10 seconds I believe the car was then start back on its own

48. Doesn't seem much better than the system in the 2017 Honda Civic or the 2018 Mazda 6 (better than the Honda). We're talking about 9 years which in electronics is a REALLY long time. Consider that the Tesla is nearly driving itself. This will keep me from buying a Toyota as I'm way past having to drive the car on long road trips. Can't wait for L4/L5 when magically all the idiots on the road will disappear.

49. The reason it says the speed limit is 55 instead of 65 It's because the last speed sign you passed was 55 And you haven't come to a speed sand that says sixty five

50. New Challenge! Great new video series TFLCar!

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