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Toyota's moonshot: Self-driving car for sale - in a year

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Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development plans to move into its new digs in Tokyo, shown in this rendering and at bottom, this summer.
February 09, 2019 10:31 AM

TOKYO — They call it Toyota's moonshot: In just one year, Japan's biggest automaker wants to start selling a self-driving vehicle that it says will be the "most powerful supercomputer on wheels."

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