Suzono, Japan – The city of Al -Mansouj near Mount Fuji is where Toyota Toyota Plans to test daily life with robots, artificial intelligence and the transfer of independent scratch emissions.
Daisuke Toyoda, responsible for the project from the auto manufacturer Founded familyHe stressed that it is not a “smart city”.
“We are doing a testing test cycle so that the matter is slightly different. He said on Saturday during a tour of the facility, where the first phase of the construction was completed.
The Associated Press was the first foreign media to get a preview of $ 10 billion The city of woven.
The first stage extends to 47,000 square meters (506,000 square feet), with a size of about five fields for baseball. Upon completion, it will be 294,000 square meters (3.1 million square feet).
Designed on the basis of the Toyota Motor Corp Auto factory, it is supposed to be a place where researchers and startups meet to exchange ideas, according to Toyoda.
Establishment plans for future cities planned or not, including the risk they suggested Gogle Mother Alphabet in Toronto; “NEOM” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Project near San FranciscoLed by the former Goldman Sachs dealer, and Masdar City Next to Abu Dhabi Airport.
The construction of City City began in 2021. All buildings are connected to underground corridors, where self -ruling vehicles will roam around collecting garbage and making delivery operations.
No one lives there yet. The first population will only total 100 people.
They are called “Al -Hazm”, who are workers in Toyota and partners, including the immediate pasta maker Nissin and Dikin, who makes air conditioners. Coffee Maker UCC was providing hot drinks from an independent motor bus, parked in a square surrounded by residential complexes.
The city’s name honors the beginnings of Toyota as an automatic format. Sakishi Toyoda, the great great Disoki Toyoda, wanted to make life easier for his mother, who was almost in a hand.
There was little talk about the use of electric cars, which is the Toyota area that left it. While Tesla and BYD appeared as a big operator EV, Toyota pushes hydrogen, the favorite energy in the woven city.
Toyota officials admitted that he did not expect to earn money from the woven city, at least not for years.
Keisuke Konishi, a car analyst at the Rapid Assessment Research Center, believes that Toyota wants to work to ride automatic horse to compete with Google – even if that means building a full complex.
“Toyota has money to do all of this,” he said.
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