Toyota Motor Corp. wants the world to know it’s not a car manufacturer -- it’s a human movement company. Japan’s largest automaker is using the Tokyo Motor Show this week as a pulpit for its global rebranding and forays into other markets including rehabilitation robots to mobility services. The company has dubbed the initiative “Start Your Impossible,” drawing inspiration from the athletes who’ll compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, of which Toyota is a top sponsor. That year looms large on Toyota’s calendar -- it plans to showcase a network of connected fuel cell buses, AI-powered autonomous highway driving, a redesigned national taxi fleet, and possibly even a flying car. “The passion for mobility goes beyond cars,” Toyota Executive Vice President Didier Leroy said during a presentation to open the motor show Wednesday. “For us, it means expanding our capability into technologies that can help people move around town or across the room.” Toyota is far from alone in seeking new revenue streams amid what President Akio Toyoda has called a once in a century paradigm shift for the auto industry. From General Motors Co. to Volkswagen AG, legacy carmakers are seeking revenue from services like ride-sharing and to monetize car data as vehicle sales plateau in major markets like the U.S. They’re also facing challenges from upstarts like Tesla Inc. Toyoda is also eying the evolving needs of rapidly aging populations in developed countries including Japan. One of the in-house companies that Toyoda introduced last year deals specifically with robots aimed at keeping people moving. The unit launched its first product, a walking rehabilitation robot, earlier this year. At the motor show, Toyota unveiled a wheelchair-accessible microcar and a Segway-like device that doesn’t require the rider to lean in order to turn. “We have to make sure we can provide the appropriate mobility” for Japan’s elderly, Leroy said in an interview following the presentation. Giving people the freedom to move is “the best way to keep a young spirit.”

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Toyota leads!

Toyota for the masses!!

Long live Toyota!!!

hisgrace090:
Toyota leads!

Toyota for the masses!!

Long live Toyota!!!

oyinbo people pass us whether we like it or not

Oyeah!

hisgrace090:
Toyota leads!

Toyota for the masses!!

Long live Toyota!!!

I love Toyota but I own a Ford

I Know nothing about cars... I just come learn

Toyota has always been a key study because of Kaizen the theory of continuous development and as such has become to a model for any company that believes in advancement.

This is really impressive.
Meanwhile in Nigeria we're still looking for constant electricity

ademoladeji:


I love Toyota but I own a Ford

No problem, you still have a second chance even more.

Donno if this myth is true, heard Toyota has the best fuel management system. Pls roommates, is it true?

RZArecta:
oyinbo people pass us whether we like it or not

Don't be a dingbat! Always keep your impoverished low self esteem to yourself.

noted!

Benz, Benz and Benz..... Bye

RZArecta:
oyinbo people pass us whether we like it or not

you ca

Perge:
Don't be a dingbat! Always keep your impoverished low self esteem to yourself.

This is not about low self esteem man, it is the painful truth even an African problem generally.

Nigerian leaders instead of interpreting the law for enhancement of the economy and development resort to tribalism, ethnic chauvinism, and religious bigotry.

They encourage stupidity, laziness and slavery to metaphysics by telling the masses to send in best pastors (god of men) to pray for the economy while the white people are making aggressive economic reformations and innovations.
In short, let me just end it here rather than starting my day in an angry way

[quote author=peterswagg post=61777327]you can say that again

Perge:
[s]Don't be a dingbat! Always keep your impoverished low self esteem to yourself[/s].

it's too early for you to be stûpid

Yeah, definitely not

nigeria cant produce anything
laptops
gadgets.
pants
clothes
shoes
everything is imported

We are in recession, you can go to hell.

Make I help OP add pictures

2shure:
nigeria cant produce anything
laptops
gadgets.
pants
clothes
shoes
everything is imported

Maybe they can, but you won't buy naija products.

RZArecta:
oyinbo people pass us whether we like it or not

How won't they pass you? When you refuse to read hardcore science texts to thoroughly understand physical phenomena.

Exciton:


How won't they pass you? When you refuse to read hardcore science texts to thoroughly understand physical phenomena.

you read hard-core science texts, what did you do with it ?

Perge:
Don't be a dingbat! Always keep your impoverished low self esteem to yourself.

isn't he right you fool? If you want to claim right then prove it with actions no words....

hisgrace090:
Toyota leads!

Toyota for the masses!!

Long live Toyota!!!

Unfortunately Toyota is no longer for the masses in Nigeria since Buhari destroyed our economy ..The MRSP for a new corola is now 25 million Naira in Nigeria