Posted on 01/07/2020 3:26:59 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The 175-acre site at the base of Mount Fuji will have clean, autonomous cars and 2,000 residents.
While introducing a concept car is nice, Toyota chose this year’s Consumer Electronics Show to announce it is building an entire city, the roads packed with last year’s autonomous concept cars. Top that, competitors.
The “living laboratory” will be built on 175 acres that used to crank out the Toyota Yaris. Efficiencies in production meant the plant was no longer necessary, freeing up all that land.
Toyota said it would be “a fully connected ecosystem powered by hydrogen fuel cells.”
(Excerpt) Read more at autoweek.com ...
Only scaled up.
I was thinking the company store at the coal mine community. Now both your company and the government can keep track of what you do, eat, watch, and read. It is green though. That makes everything safe, pure, and comfortable.
Of course, the next question is, where do they get the energy to separate the hydrogen for the fuel cells.
Isn’t this similar to the original idea behind the Epcot Center? At one time Epcot Center was supposed to be the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. It was going to be a planned city where residents would use experimental new technology before the rest of the world .
175 acres... Just a little more than 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile.
Epcot ran out of letters to use before it got to H for Hydrogen. i.e. lgbt, etc comes first.
How fast does it go?
Just like “The Village” of Number 6.
My subdivision is about that big.
Design For Dreaming, the reboot.
will they have autonomous ambulancesto deal with folksinjured and run over by autonomous cars?
They have a lot of resources for the energy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Japan
Not autonomous, centrally controlled.
That looks amusing - what show is it from?
(I was thinking more along the lines of Genom from Bubblegum Crisis, but yeah)
The 175-acre site at the base of Mount Fuji will have clean, autonomous cars and 2,000 residents.
USA used to have company towns like this. Plenty of court cases where it was established they’re treated just like any town and therefore can’t infringe your rights even though it’s all private property.
More like a very small village
Mortal Engines.
kind of a small farm size
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