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Toyota is Building a Tiny Utopian Prototype City Filled With People, Robots and AI

posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 13 2020, @11:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the utopia-for-whom? dept.

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Toyota is building a tiny utopian prototype city filled with people, robots and AI – TechCrunch:

Toyota researches and tests robotics, material science, automated driving and alternative fuel technology in labs all around the world. Now the automaker is trying a new and far more ambitious project: build a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fugi in Japan, where people will live and work amongst all of Toyota’s projects, including its autonomous e-Palette shuttles and robots.

This won’t be another test site, Toyota Motor Corp President Akio Toyoda said Monday during a press conference ahead of CES 2020. Construction on the first phase of the city — which will be designed by acclaimed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels — will begin in 2021.  His firm, Ingels Group (BIG) has designed high-profile projects such as 2 World Trade Center in New York, the Lego House in Denmark and Google’s Mountain View and London headquarters.

This is a passion project of Toyoda’s, several executives said after the press conference. And it was evident on stage.

“It’s my personal fields of dreams,” Toyoda said. “If they build it, they will come.”

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  • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday January 13 2020, @01:50PM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday January 13 2020, @01:50PM (#942718) Journal

    A robotized city concept reminds me of Watoga, Fallout76. The most democratic place on the planet.
    https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Watoga [fandom.com]

    For some reason, this rich and dangerous region gets direct impact hits from nuclear silos by people every now and then...
    What could possibly go wrong for Toyota?
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Monday January 13 2020, @04:59PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Monday January 13 2020, @04:59PM (#942786) Journal

    Well, #1 that's game. #2, it takes all of the worst monetization schemes and shoves it into the Fallout universe. Unless they strip the stupid out of that game, I won't give it the time of day. Seems like they're doing good on the fleecing fans of a popular game franchise, though. Assuming, they ever make a Fallout 5, they better be up-front about the whole, we will never microtransactionize / turn this into a subscription or F2P game.

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    • (Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Monday January 13 2020, @06:35PM

      by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Monday January 13 2020, @06:35PM (#942817) Journal

      Well, real Toyota Corporation has already a true history of being nuked in 1945, and air raids left them with no facilities left. That's why Watoga regular nuking by players in F76 came in my mind first as a parallel.

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