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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 25 2019, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
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When thousands of people converge on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the city's infrastructure will be tested. Toyota is getting into the mix to handle some of the ways people will get around the city and the Olympics venue.

Toyota unveiled Thursday a new product called APM, or Accessible People Mover, which is designed for the Olympics and Paralympic Games.

The aim, according to Toyota, is for this vehicle to provide "mobility for all" and to solve the so-called "last mile" problem. In Toyota's view, that means a vehicle that can transport as many people as possible, including elderly, pregnant women, families with young children and people with disabilities.

Toyota will deploy 200 of these vehicles, which will operate in and around the event. There will be two models — basic and relief — in the fleet. The basic version is a low-speed short-distance battery electric vehicle that will be used to transport visitors and staff within the Olympic grounds. Each vehicle will hold six people, including the driver. When used for passengers in wheelchairs, the configuration can be modified by folding the seats to allow the wheelchair rider in the second row.

The "relief" model will be used for emergencies. The rows can be moved to provide space for a stretcher and two relief stretchers.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/this-is-one-way-toyota-plans-to-shuttle-people-around-during-the-2020-olympics/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @04:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 26 2019, @04:57PM (#871553)

    Talk about old news, did you own one of those Toyotas?

    I inherited a 2009 Toyota recently and I know it had the throttle-by-wire pedal-assembly replaced back at that time. The original owner (close family friend) reported that the pedal felt better after the recall (but it never stuck, just felt "high friction"). Works fine now, I hadn't thought about this recall in many years.