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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.”
(Score: 2) by damnbunni on Tuesday January 14 2020, @12:33PM (1 child)
To be fair, Walt's vision included making lots and lots of money.
He was pretty damn good at it, too.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 14 2020, @03:25PM
True, but he had a vision for the use of that money as well. He couldn't exactly do what he wanted with a couple pennies that he could rub together. Musk kinda reminds me of Walt Disney, they both had a few crackpot ideas, but the major difference is that I'd probably have liked to spend an afternoon with Disney. Musk doesn't exactly come across as a family friendly kinda guy.
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