I'll summarize an article in Asahi newspaper and translate it into English to improve my skills.
On Jan. 23, 2023, Toyota began to build 'Woven City' in Shizuoka prefecture. This new city is designed as experimental city. It will be a future city full of advanced technologies. The company plans that new dwellers will come to the city in 4 years.
It is expected that people there can daily use advanced technologies. For example, if they need to move, they use 'e-pallet', which distributes the needed number of cars at a needed time. This service will save time to wait and will serve the spaces in the cars as lockers preserving clothes, foods and parcels. In addition, there will be other attracting services; automatic delivery, censors checking health, power plant generating electricity by hydrogen. Toyota plans that the city will have a population of more than 2,000 people.
Asahi newspaper says that Toyota has strong awareness of crisis that they will not be able to survive only by selling cars. Toyota hurries to transform into a mobility company offering various services concerning mobility.
This project was originated by the President. According to the executives, the amount of money he has invested is surprisingly large. Just as his grandfather changed a company of weaving machines into Toyota, so he would like to change his property into the future by investing to Woven City. Some employees are worried that he begins to pursue his own benefits. However, he says that he can't control the company because he doesn't have much stock enough to do so. Some executives says that they will make strict rules and that any problem will not be happened.
'Woven City' is named after an imagination of a city of which roads are crossed like a woven cloth. Toyota affiliates with many companies. After all, the project is so large. The largest company is NTT, one of the Japanese largest telecom companies. The president of this company shows hostility to GAFA.
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