Toyota is building an actual city

Car manufacturers are always building new prototype, y'know, cars, but this is the first time we've heard of one building its own prototype city. Toyota (obviously) is planning to build a 175-acre city at the base of Japan's Mount Fuji. Construction of'Woven City', which is being designed by the same company behind 2 World Trade Center in New York, Lego House in Denmark, and Google's Mountain View and London headquarters among others, will begin in 2021. But what exactly, we hear you cry, is the point? Toyota says Woven City will be a "living laboratory" populated by more than 2,000 people, many of whom will be scientists, engineers and researchers who will use it to "test and develop technologies such as autonomy, robotics, personal mobility, smart homes and artificial intelligence in a real-world environment".