With that in mind, here rundown of what Toyota brought to CES 2016. First of all, there's the Toyota Smart Center which is considered the heart of their vision for a Smart Mobility Society that connects everyone, people, vehicles and entire communities at the same time. Technically speaking, this is a private cloud-based computing system which collects secure vehicle data, analyzes information from vehicles around the globe and provides the customer with personalized services which in turn make his life easier.
Then there's the next-gen connected services systems such as Agent+, which leverages multiple factors including day, time, location and even driving history to predict likely destinations and help with guidance. However, it's the Mobility Teammate Concept that ultimately demonstrates more than 20 years of R&D into automated driving technologies. Toyota wanted people to see their artificial intelligence display where scale model Prius connected vehicles learn from and share with each other in real time - which is what will ultimately lead to a safer driving environment.
As for the Toyota FCV Plus concept, well it had to be there in order to demonstrate Toyota's vision for a connected and sustainable hydrogen society, whereas the Kikai (which means "machine") was there to provide the so called eye-candy factor, which it definitely did - if you're into that sort of automotive art.
Even though a lot of the vehicles and technologies on display at CES are meant for the future, some of them, like telematics systems (Agent+) may actually show up soon on Toyota models.