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 years Consumer Electronics Show to announce it is building an entire city, the roads packed with last years 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 ...
They won’t be quarantined off from the rest of Japan. “Let’s Go Places”. Japan has a lot to see. As the Armed Forces Radio Network program, “ENJOY JAPAN” used to say it, “ Nippon-wa tanoshin de kudasai”.
like Hershey Penn.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
*ping*
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