DALLAS — One of the most striking things about Toyota Connected, the automaker's year-old automotive data-harvesting startup, is its location — not on the sprawling new North American headquarters campus that Toyota just spent $1 billion putting together, but one mile away in its own office space.
Surely, Toyota North America could have spared some of its 2 million square feet for the connected-car unit and its planned 200 workers. But keeping the operation contained wasn't what Toyota executives had in mind.