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Working Toward the Mobility Society of the Future

Message from the President The Source of Our Value Creation: What Makes Us Toyota Value Creation Story: Working toward the Mobility Society of the Future Business Foundations for Value Creation Corporate Data > Making Ever-better Cars > Initiatives to Achieve Carbon Neutrality Software and Connected Initiatives > Commercial Sector Initiatives > Woven City this was realized via the MSPF that Toyota has been building and refining. In the future, these technologies will be applied to the Sienna Autono-MaaS minivan being devel- oped in the United States for use as a robotaxi, and the MSPF will be used not only for automated vehicles, but also for regular commercial vehicles and logistics. Innovation through a New Mobility Software Platform In this way, software has the power to promptly turn ideas into products. The aim of Arene, the vehicle software development platform that Toyota and Woven Planet are focused on, is to continue fundamentally changing the development of software for vehicles. The most notable characteristics of Arene are that it absorbs the differences in vehicle hardware specifications (abstraction) and employs hardware abstraction layers (HAL) that enable hardware to be controlled with universal methods. This, in turn, enables the independent development of hardware and software as well as the reuse of software. Arene leverages the strengths of hardware cultivat- ed by Toyota to achieve the development of safe, high-quality, and advanced software. Because increasingly complicated software development is becoming a bottleneck for cars, too, there is a need for a revolutionary vehicle OS that can solve these issues. The vehicle OS will achieve TPS in software development as well, and we must continue to realize combinations of good hardware and software. For example, when developing automated driving software, the on-board software needed for automated driving actually makes up only 10%; the other 90% comprises various tools, such as data processing by the machine learning system, mounting, code review, software updates, log analyses, and simulations. Basically, most of the software we develop is used off-board (out- side vehicles) or through the cloud. Arene is used to develop frameworks for vehicle development and development environments based on those frameworks as well as to build ecosystems Fleet Management System Based on the Toyota Production System (TPS) Aiming for the ultimate in "just-in-time mobility," e-Palettes are dispatched "when needed, where needed, and in the amount needed." for mobility development. Using industry-leading software technologies, we will continue providing privacy-conscious, secure, and safe cars. Furthermore, application development on Arene is also easy. Partner companies will be able to program applications more efficiently using the Arene's application programming interface (API, a mechanism that can share software functions) and software development kit (SDK), which includes simulation environments. In this way, development on Arene swiftly realizes commercialization and enables users to share the fun of providing new ideas that appeal to customers while meeting the expectations of worldwide partners and developers as well as the Toyota brand's high-quality standards. The portion of a car's value attributable to software is growing. By internalizing the parts. central to Toyota's future, we will strategically ensure the strengths of our hardware and software through internal production, compartmentalize development undertaken with partners, and accelerate the speed of mass production. For these initiatives, we are building a software Real Life New Features, Services, and Functionality development structure on a 3,000-person scale for Toyota, Woven Planet, and Toyota Connected and on a 18,000-person scale for the entire Group. We are also strengthening the teams responsible for the internal production and development of software. Geofencing Technology Expands the Possibilities of HEVS and PHEVS Through connected technologies, we can contribute to carbon neutrality by gaining a better under- standing of the characteristics of each region in the form of data and combining this knowledge with realized technologies. According to market data, in Japan, the engine is turned off for half of all driving time in hybrid electric vehicles, or HEVS, while for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, or PHEVs, the engine is turned off for as much as 80 percent. HEVS and PHEVs can evolve into environment-friendly vehicles to an even higher degree by upgrading the switching control of engines and electric motors. In other words, there is room to expand the possibilities of both HEVS and PHEVS. Virtual Waiting customers increase AMMS (Operation management center) Additional unit dispatched in real time 3 Prevents variation in operation intervals Autonomy Applications Infotainment Other Applications Emergency remote vehicle stop/restart Immediate development of replacement vehicles Automatically sent to the garage in the event of an abnormality Application Programmable Interface (API) Arene Operating System (OS) Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 27 INTEGRATED REPORT Arene Tools (Simulation Environment)
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