At CES on Monday, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda said the Japanese auto giant will transform a 175-acre site of a former car factory into a “prototype city of the future” where it can test autonomous vehicles, innovative street design, smart home technology, robotics, and new mobility products on real people who would live there full-time. “The site, which will be designed by famed Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, will house up to 2,000 people and will break ground in 2021,” reports The Verge. “Toyota is calling the site ‘Woven City.'”
The plan is reminiscent of Sidewalk Labs’ efforts to build a digital city on Toronto’s Eastern waterfront. However, it’s almost certainly going to face less pushback from the local government, as Toyota is a Japanese company and collects considerably less data than Sidewalk Labs’ parent company Alphabet, which has been caught in a battle over information privacy.
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