[Auto]Toyota will expand and improve its operations in the field of automated driving

[SougarLord]

Woven CORE will be dedicated to the development, deployment and scaling of automated driving technologies, while Woven Alpha will explore new business opportunities and hatch innovative projects that go beyond the current scope of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), such as the city of the future Woven City. , the open platform to create programmable Arene1 vehicles and an Automated Mapping Platform —Automated Mapping Platform (AMP) 2.

 

TRI-AD was established in March 2018 in Tokyo, Japan to offer fully integrated, production-quality software for automated driving applications. TRI-AD's vision is ‘Mobility to Love, Safety to Live’ and its mission is to create world-class technology and develop safe mobility products for everyone.

 

                                                    

 

Over the past two years, TRI-AD has made great strides towards achieving its vision and mission, such as developing the most modern advanced driving assistance technology, called 'Teammate'3, which is based in the prototype 'Mobility Teammate'4. TRI-AD is now starting the next phase of its evolution to bring mobility, both of people and of goods and information, to everyone. And to achieve this, the company's operations must be expanded and improved.

 

To effectively and efficiently advance TRI-AD's advanced development capabilities and to continue to create new value through automated driving, safety technologies, mobility and the woven city of the future Woven City, the Woven Planet Holdings group It will adopt a more agile development process, prioritizing software and software-defined architecture.

 

New structure

 

Woven Planet Holdings will have a strategic decision-making function for the group as a whole, as well as to expand collaboration with partners, create new business opportunities and provide shared corporate services to operating companies.

 

Meanwhile, Woven CORE will continue to pursue the development of the Toyota Group's automated driving technologies and will aim to continue to create value by developing, deploying and scaling automated driving technologies on the market.

 

For its part, Woven Alpha will explore new areas of business expansion and incubate new innovative projects, such as Woven City, Arene and AMP.

 

James Kuffner, CEO of TRI-AD commented: “When President Akio Toyoda announced that Toyota would become a mobility company, we realized that we would need to combine powerful software and hardware to achieve this.

TRI-AD started operating in March 2018 as a joint venture between Toyota, Denso and Aisin, in order to unify and strengthen Toyota's software development capabilities, particularly in the fields of automated driving and advanced security. Two years later, we have come a long way, hired wonderful people, entered into some strategic alliances, and received strong support from the Toyota Group, which has enhanced our ability to successfully develop cutting-edge software.

 

Now we would like to take TRI-AD to the next phase, and prepare our company for unprecedented levels of growth, speed and quality, to guide our way into the future. I am firmly convinced that all of this will be possible under the new structure of Woven Planet Holdings, which will serve to unite our efforts with the necessary ingredients in terms of people, technologies, infrastructure and corporate management to achieve our vision of 'Mobility to love, security to live'.

 

We will work tirelessly with our partners and stakeholders to create new value, new technologies and new products, at the speed and scale expected from Toyota, and we will do so with software and services that will drive future mobility. ”

 

Akio Toyoda, President and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) said: “At the beginning of the year, Toyota announced Woven City, an intertwined city that will serve as a living laboratory where we can create an increasingly better, people-centered way of life. and in mobility for all. Now, TRI-AD is restructuring into three new companies, and to make the concept that all of them must remember as their mission clear, the names of all three will include the word 'Woven' (intertwined).

 

‘Woven’ derives from the English verb ‘weave’, which means to weave or interlace. The inspiration came in part from the arrangement of the three types of lanes for different types of mobility, which intersect each other as if intertwining in the urban plan of the new city. However, the word 'Woven' hides another important meaning.

 

Toyota's roots go back to the automatic loom invented by Sakichi Toyoda, father of Toyota Motor Corporation founder Kiichiro Toyoda. Seeing his mother's problems with weaving and with the intention of making her happy by helping her and facilitating her work, Sakichi invented the loom.

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Later, Kiichiro began to manufacture automobiles out of a great desire to achieve a happier society by contributing to general prosperity, starting with Japan. In a spirit similar to that of Toyota's founders, our starting point should always be to create something that benefits others, or simply to spread happiness among people.

 

So the prototype city took the term 'Woven' as part of its name to also indicate the desire and actions we must take to bring happiness to others, especially when we look to an unknown future as we embark on this project. in continuous evolution.

 

TRI-AD was launched two years ago to realize Toyota's vision for the future. Now, TRI-AD will adopt a new leadership role, characterized by the name ‘Woven’ to further reinforce the idea of ‘bringing happiness to others’.

 

In Woven Planet Holdings, the word 'Planet' implies that its scale will go far beyond the traditional concept of a city.

 

Woven Planet Holdings will focus on 'happiness for the future' from a much broader perspective than ever before.

 

For its part, Woven CORE will be responsible for achieving the new mobility. This new mobility will be articulated around automated driving technologies.

 

Finally, in Woven Alpha, the term 'Alpha' means 'unknown' or 'immeasurable'. Woven Alpha will take care of the R&D work needed to lay the foundation for the future, including the living lab that will be launched within Woven City.

Reorganized under the name 'Woven', TRI-AD will set out to become the kind of organization that allows everyone involved to step on the gas to help achieve a future where people can be happier.

 

To make all of this more open and collaborative, the element that, in a singular and deliberate way, will be absent from these three new companies, Woven Planet, Woven CORE and Woven Alpha, will be the Toyota brand.

In any case, these companies will pave the way for Toyota's future, while perpetuating the legacy of "bringing happiness to others" that Toyota has so conscientiously woven into its own DNA. "