Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?
Summary
The article surveys Toyota's Woven City, a $10 billion private utopia built atop a former factory to test next-generation mobility, robotics, and data-driven services. It highlights a tension between advanced AI-enabled surveillance and privacy, detailing Toyota's Data Fabric and consent-management approaches, plus the city’s energy, robotics, and autonomous-vehicle experiments, with implications for OEMs and urban-scale deployments.