Toyota is clearing some 175 acres (70 ha) of land in the shadow of Mt. Fuji to build and test a prototype of a hydrogen-powered future city full of autonomous vehicles, subterranean deliveries, domestic robots and other high-tech goodies.
Built from the ground up as a test bed for all sorts of technologies, the “Woven City” may become one of the world’s most futuristic places to live.Scheduled to begin breaking ground in 2021, the Woven City will be built on a stretched grid of pathways that aim to separate traffic into discrete paths for self-driving mobility pods, pedestrians, and medium-speed mobility devices like electric scooters, bicycles, skateboards and monowheels.
The average modern-day street, the thinking goes, is a mess of things traveling at wildly different speeds. Why not optimize each street for a vehicle type and give each one a better, safer experience?The pedestrian and medium-speed mobility paths will effectively let people get from A to B through the city without ever having to leave a park-like recreation space with plenty of greenery. That’ll be nice.
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