Can Toyota succeed where Sidewalk Labs failed? | Smart Cities Dive
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Toyota broke ground on its "city of the future" this week, just more than a year after its Woven City prototype was teased at CES 2020.
UPDATED, Feb. 24, 2021: Toyota's Woven City project officially broke ground this week, following a kickoff ceremony featuring Toyota President Akio Toyoda, Woven Planet CEO James Kuffner, Gov. Heita Kawatatsu of Shizuoka Prefecture and others, Cities Today reports. Oct. 19, 2020: In a high-profile presentation at CES 2020, Toyota announced plans to convert an old factory site in Japan into a prototype "city of the future." The 175-acre Woven City project, to sit at the base of Mt. Fuji, would house some 2,000 residents and will be outfitted with connected infrastructure, clean buildings and…
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