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Behind Toyota’s Late Shift Into Self-Driving Cars – Wall Street Journal
Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
In September 2015, three executives walked into the Tokyo office of Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda with a call for a radical change. Toyota, they believed, needed to embrace the goal of building cars that could drive themselves, possibly without drivers—something Mr. Toyoda, a race-car enthusiast who likes his hands and feet on the controls,…