Put on certain clothes and catch the train, and you can enter the western American town from decades of modern technology into a small town in the western United States, where everything is completely different. This is the story of the American drama “Western World”. A train can take you into another time and space and experience a completely different urban style.

Toyota also wants to build a similar town.

The difference is that when you catch the train and enter the town, you do n’t go back to the past, but you arrive in the future.

At CES, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda announced that Toyota will build a “ Weave City “.

Atsuo Toyoda calls it a “personal dream city”, and the well-known construction company Bjarke Ingels Group will start building the city in 2021. The construction company previously built World Trade Center 2 in New York, Google’s Mountain View, and its London headquarters.

▲ Concept map of World Trade Center Building 2 in New York

The City of Weaving will reach 175 acres (708,200 square meters) and will initially accommodate 2,000 people. “Citizens” are Toyota employees, employee families, scientists, and some people who are very interested in new technologies. These people will be invited into the “lab” to be the subject of testing, helping Toyota to “see” the future of the automotive industry, urban planning, and the community.

This “lab” will test smart transportation systems including autonomous driving, robots, smart homes, new energy and smart shopping malls. The cars in “City of Weaving” are all “zero emission” self-driving cars. At the same time, the modular self-driving car E-Palettes they launched in 2018 will also become the basic configuration of the city, which can deliver people, goods, food and even entire stores to the “goods” door, becoming the city’s “shopping platform” “.

And home robots and artificial intelligence are also important components of families in this city.

Of course, the robots are not the high-complete robot stewards we saw in the movie, but the robots that can only complete a fixed process. They can automatically add food to the refrigerator and empty the trash. If the technology is mature enough, they can even check the owner’s health.

The building material of the city of weaving is wood, which uses the traditional structure of traditional Japanese architecture. It will use solar, geothermal and hydrogen fuel cell technologies to obtain energy. Toy’s definition of this city is “An infrastructure and industry agreement that can test and improve (community) mobility, autonomy, connectivity, hydrogen power, etc.Working real lab. ”

Building a complete city from scratch-even a small-scale city like this that includes infrastructure such as a digital operating system is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies … people, buildings and vehicles can pass Data and sensors are connected and communicating with each other, and we will be able to test artificial intelligence technology in the virtual and real world at the same time to maximize its potential.

And the founder of Bjarke Ingels Group Bjarke Ingels also thinks uniquely about the city. In his opinion , today ’s The city is a mess, there is nothing, nothing. Under the influence of these lessons learned, Bjarke Ingels Group and Toyota will separate the “weaving city” from the traditional city.

We will separate the “City of Weaving” and re-weave the three typical components of the road together to form a new urban texture-the street is a street optimized for autonomous vehicles. Moving promenade, a linear park for pedestrians to relax.

▲ Google Mountain View by Bjarke Ingels Group

This is a very “Silicon Valley” city. Its appearance looks no different from that of Internet companies in Silicon Valley. Its minimalist appearance, airy design, and sharp lines all highlight its sense of technology.

The construction of such a city is obviously not just for testing its self-driving cars. It may be more about finding the relationship between people, cars and the cities of the future. It transcends the automotive sector and is more like a Toyota’s “tech utopia”.

Facing such a weaving city in the future, if Toyota intends to open up to recruit occupants, will you want to become its new residents?