e-Palette, self-driving on-demand vehicle concept, Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota, Aichi, Japan

Toyota delivers its vision for the future with a series of modular vehicles that become places like a traveling storefront, rideshare vehicle or mobile office.

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The People at Pizza Hut must be fans of Black Mirror... Kim & Bryan break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!

“The Consumer Electronics Show currently taking place in Las Vegas is no doubt unveiling technologies that bring machines closer to invading all aspects of human behavior. Black Mirror’s explorations of this connected future feel eerily prescient to most viewers, and thanks to CES we have proof of it: The self-driving pizza delivery trucks that appeared in this season four episode, blithely mowing down pedestrians, are now in development thanks to Pizza Hut and Toyota.

The carmaker and pizza giant today announced their partnership to develop a self-driving vehicle concept called e-Palette that could see initial tests in regions across the U.S. as early as 2020."

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Toyota City, Japan, December 22, 2020―Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today announced an operations management system to support the providing of services that will enable practical use of the e-Palette, a battery-electric vehicle for autonomous mobility as a service (Autono-MaaS) applications that will realize future mobility services. In collaboration with a range of partners, it is also planning to operate the vehicles in Woven City, a fully connected prototype city, while targeting commercial use in multiple areas and regions in the early 2020s.

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