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Inside Toyota’s $10B private utopia: Big ideas, few people, cameras everywhere

Ars Technica·Ars Contributors·29 days ago
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Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more. Residents of Toyota's Woven City can ride around the place on three-wheeled "Swakes" or take the e-Palatte buses. Or walk, since it's quite compact right now. Credit: Toyota Residents of Toyota's Woven City can ride around the place on three-wheeled "Swakes" or take the e-Palatte buses. Or walk, since it's quite compact right now. Credit: Toyota At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2020, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda pledged to build a city of the future, a place where researchers, engineers, and scientists could live and work together. It was framed as the start of a transformation for the world’s largest car company, moving it toward becoming a fully fledged mobility company. Six months ago, after Toyota spent an estimated $10 billion to build an urban paradise atop a disused factory, the first residents moved in.…

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