Each year, Tokyo plays host to what is dubbed arguably as the greatest show in the motoring world.
This year’s staging of the Tokyo Motor Show tries to outshine previous shows as organizers promise to come up with more exciting offerings.
TMS is scheduled to open its doors to the public from October 28 to November 5, with an attraction like the Tokyo Connected Lab 2017 expected to wow the crows once more.
Organizers say the Tokyo Connected Lab 2017 “will explore how the very meaning of mobility will be redefined when connected automobiles communicate with each other and with infrastructure through information and communication networks and artificial intelligence.”
The first program is dubbed “The Future” where the visitors will sit inside a giant dome, which can seat up to 300 people at a time, and–on the basis of the answers of participants to questions posed to them and six key concepts (‘social good,’ ‘universal,’ ‘move,’ ‘drive,’ ‘private,’ ‘share’)–see their ideas for an urban-centered “mobility society’ of the future through 360-degree visual projections.
“The Maze” is the second program where up to 30 visitors at a time will experience what it’s like when cars, drivers, and a total city infrastructure are all connected as they drive through a fully connected, maze-like Tokyo of the future in their own connected cars using 30 sets of interconnected PlayStation VR systems.
The final program is “The Meet Up” where a series of conference sessions will build on the motor show’s ‘Beyond the Motor’ theme, with leaders and innovators from a wide range of backgrounds discussing the future of mobility and the new opportunities it could bring. In addition, an idea-pitching event on the “next steps” for mobility will be part of this program, “involving members of the general public who will participate on the basis of the particular ideas they pitch.”