A sterile existence in Japan’s digitalized Toyota “smart city”

Editor’s note: For Japan it’s technology or die as a country. They have no choice but try and compete with the rest of the world including China for technological supremacy. Can anyone really imagine living in such a sterile digitized city manufactured by a car manufacturer? It is being advertised as a “utopia.” Here we thought utopia was safe city streets in Japan and good food. Japan is facing a massive public debt problem and these people drop billions on a digital utopian city?

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Source: knewz

Mass Human Experiment’: Inside Japan’s $8 Billion ‘Smart’ City, A Utopia Set For First Residents To Move In This Year

By David Wetzel | March 19, 2024

lans to build a luxurious utopian sustainable city at the base of an active Japanese volcano are advancing.

Toyota’s Woven City, which is being built miles away from Mount Fuji on the island of Honshū, is expected to welcome in its first 2,000 residents by the end of the year, Knewz.com has learned.

Toyota’s Woven City could open by the end of the year. By: Toyota

The fact that the project is nearly completed comes soon after photos of Saudi Arabia’s smart city project, The Line, were released.

According to Metro, Woven is advertised as a “mass human experiment” that will include a “living laboratory” for Toyota to try out renewable and energy-efficient self-driving vehicles that are called “E-palettes.”

The entire project is slated to cost more than $7 billion, according to Metro.

One of the world’s largest car manufacturers, Toyota plans to gather information from the city’s driverless cars, which will be guided by sensors in lights, building and roads.

That will allow the company to gain information on both automotive and pedestrian traffic.

Woven City is located in Japan. By: Toyota

Woven City will also include “smart homes” that run nearly entirely on hydrogen, reducing emissions by being as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible.

“Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure,” Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s president, said. “With people, buildings and vehicles all connected and communicating with each other through data and sensors, we will be able to test connected AI technology in both virtual and the physical realms, maximizing its potential.”

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