Toyoda posits that the shared mobility all automakers are pursuing will lead to people owning forms of mobility that are more, ahem, personal. Thus, the voice of the customer cliché reappears with its latest bold new grille. Err, or is that only possible after a video game is purchased? Enter the e-RACER, which appears to be more than vaporware. “The cars in everyone’s garages will all be sports cars, like this e-RACER,” he said. “Well, that’s a little overstating it, but… wanting to move about as one wishes, …and wanting to go faster and farther… are, I think, universal human desires.”

Yes, agreed faster, farther. But what to make of all the single-occupant vehicles and Amazon vans clogging our streets – if you build them, more will come, ad infinitum…