Toyota launches test city in central Japan featuring self-driving, robots

Toyota Motor Corp. on Thursday launched an experimental "city" in central Japan where self-driving vehicles, delivery robots and personal transporters operate to provide services to residents, marking a rare urban initiative by an automaker.In the first phase of the Woven City project on about 47,000 square meters of land at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, a few households have moved in. Around 300 more people linked to Toyota are expected to live there.In the future, the testing ground will be expanded to about 294,000 square meters, with more than 2,000 Toyota-related…READ FULL ARTICLE