Toyota's plan to build the world's most technologically advanced neighborhood on a 175-acre site at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji is a nod to the automaker's humble beginnings as a loom maker.
And the name of the project, Woven City, has another meaning.
Toyota Motor Corp. CEO Akio Toyoda, who flew to Las Vegas last week to personally introduce the ambitious plan at CES, pointed out that the company researches and tests artificial intelligence, mobility, robotics and other technologies in labs around the world.