In order to strengthen relations with the Mitsui Clan, the Toyota Family has continuously engaged in interfamily marriages with them.

To put it simply, the first president of Toyota, Toyota Risaburo, although he bore the name Toyota, was actually a member of the Mitsui Clan.

Back then, the Mitsui Clan had him marry into the Toyota Family, becoming the first president of Toyota.

Then, Toyota Kiichiro, the founder of Toyota and the second president, married Mitsui Hiroko from the Mitsui Clan.

Toyota Shigeichiro's only son, also the fourth-generation head of the Toyota Family and the father of Toyota Osamu, married the daughter of the vice president of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Therefore, it was assumed that if Toyota Osamu were to inherit the position in the future, he should also marry a daughter from the Mitsui Clan or a daughter from the Mitsui Conglomerate's top management.

But Toyota Osamu did not do this.

The consequence of not doing this was that before his death, Toyota Shigeichiro decided to pass on the presidency of Toyota Group to someone outside the family.

Toyota Osamu never entered the core management of the Toyota Group.

Of course, all this gossip was something Chen Yiyang casually searched for before he came.

He still couldn't quite understand why Toyota Osamu would invite him over.

But everyone knows the Japanese personality.

Even if the fire is at their eyebrow the next second, this second they still want to chat about trivial things.

Toyota Osamu chose to talk about cars with Chen Yiyang.

Toyota Osamu is very fond of cars and even once formed a team to participate in Japan's Super Endurance Race.

According to the information Chen Yiyang found, his current position is a senior vice president of a subsidiary under Toyota, focusing mainly on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.

So, based on his speculation, after chatting with Toyota Osamu about racing, Chen Yiyang actively guided the topic towards autonomous driving.

"What does Mr. Chen think about autonomous driving technology?" Toyota Osamu looked visibly happier when Chen Yiyang talked about autonomous driving.

"Autonomous driving is definitely the future direction of the automotive industry."

As for Yiyang Automobile, the company Chen Yiyang currently founded, it's yet to delve into autonomous driving.

As this technology might still take a long time to be realized, Yiyang Automobile's current task is survival; they don't have the funds to prepare for the future.

"That's what I think too," Toyota Osamu said excitedly to Chen Yiyang. "Mr. Chen knows that Japan is about to host the World Expo, right?"

"Yes, I know," Chen Yiyang replied as he thought to himself.

The last time Japan hosted the Olympics, an accountant died.

The current progress on the World Expo project seems to be suboptimal.

I heard a symbolic building of the World Expo partially collapsed recently.

I wonder how many accountants will die this time.

"I plan to showcase Japan's autonomous driving technology to the world at the Osaka World Expo. This will be very important for Toyota Group and the Japanese automotive industry."

"Uh-huh," Chen Yiyang nodded.

He didn't really want to just nod.

But until now, he still couldn't understand what Toyota Osamu wanted to do.

Why talk to him about showcasing Toyota's intelligent driving technology?

He is not part of Toyota, nor does his company work on autonomous driving technology.

However, after a few more words with Toyota Osamu,

He found that unless Chen Yiyang took the initiative to guide the topic, Toyota Osamu would seem to crash and just keep repeating himself.

So Chen Yiyang could only guess while continuing to talk.

"Could I have the privilege of visiting Toyota's autonomous driving technology?"

"I would love to do that, but our technology still has some immature aspects, and we're concerned that showcasing it might lead to negative perceptions of Toyota,"

Upon hearing Toyota Osamu's response, Chen Yiyang tried to decipher what was being said.

It should mean that Toyota's autonomous driving technology isn't presentable; if showcased at the Osaka World Expo, it could be embarrassing.

"Yes, autonomous driving technology is indeed unstable now, and my own car company is also diligently researching this technology."

"So Mr. Chen's ideas align with mine." Toyota Osamu was pleased to hear Chen Yiyang's response and continued, "However, in Huaxia, there are many companies researching autonomous driving technology. When there are many peers, experiences can be shared.

Unlike Toyota Company, which has to research alone, resulting in many incomplete aspects."

After chatting with Toyota Osamu for a while, Chen Yiyang gradually understood his way of speaking.

He then caught another important point.

The word 'peer.'

"Yes, indeed. We have many companies researching autonomous driving technology in Huaxia.

For instance, Biyadai Company, which partners with my Yiyang Automobile in operating a car factory in Brazil Sao Paulo, has invested a lot in this area."

"Biyadai sells cars in Japan too, and their sales are pretty good. Especially their electric buses, which are quite popular in Japan.

I often think that if the autonomous driving technology I developed could be applied to electric buses and showcased at the World Expo, it would be quite impressive."

Finally, this guy who seemed to be doing pretty well revealed his intentions.

Chen Yiyang almost wanted to celebrate.

After nearly half an hour of talking,

he finally understood what Toyota Osamu sought him out for.

For goodness' sake, couldn't he just say it directly?

When he heard Schaefer introduce him to the other party earlier,

he should have realized what this guy wanted!

Schaefer bought mechanical dogs from Yushu, painted them a new color, and sold them as his own.

Toyota Osamu's intention was also very clear.

Though he never entered the core management of the Toyota Group, he still wanted to achieve something.

But the company under his management that researches intelligent driving technology was not up to par technically.

So, what could be done?

Even if they developed the relevant technology later, the World Expo would already be over.

If they couldn't develop it themselves, why not borrow others' tech?

Biyadai's intelligent driving technology is pretty good, right?

But if such things got exposed, it wouldn't be good, so it had to be done covertly.

It would be best if Biyadai could customize a few autonomous driving electric buses and send them to Japan.

Such cooperation couldn't be done through the company.

He himself didn't have connections in Biyadai and was worried that contacting rashly might be exposed by the media.

At this time, Schaefer recommended Chen Yiyang as an excellent partner to him.

So he immediately reached out to Chen Yiyang.

Having figured all this out, Chen Yiyang could only continue to probe according to the Japanese way of conversing,

"I know quite a few people at Biyadai. If Mr. Toyota wants to learn about other companies' intelligent driving technologies, I can have them send a few autonomous electric buses to Japan. How many do you need?"

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