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Plans to build a luxurious utopian sustainable city at the base of an active Japanese volcano are advancing.
Toyota’s Woven City, which is being built miles away from Mount Fuji on the island of Honshū, is expected to welcome in its first 2,000 residents by the end of the year, Knewz.com has learned.
The fact that the project is nearly completed comes soon after photos of Saudi Arabia’s smart city project, The Line, were released.
According to Metro, Woven is advertised as a “mass human experiment” that will include a “living laboratory” for Toyota to try out renewable and energy-efficient self-driving vehicles that are called “E-palettes.”
The entire project is slated to cost more than $7 billion, according to Metro.
One of the world’s largest car manufacturers, Toyota plans to gather information from the city’s driverless cars, which will be guided by sensors in lights, building and roads.
That will allow the company to gain information on both automotive and pedestrian traffic.