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James Kuffner, the Outsider Reshaping Toyota
A former Google roboticist, Kuffner is Toyota’s youngest board member and maybe a potential successor to President Akio Toyoda.
06 Dec 2021, 04:50 PM IST 
A Toyota Motor Corp. badge sits on the company’s Yaris vehicle prototype at the company’s Tokyo head office in Tokyo, Japan. (Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- A former Google roboticist, Kuffner is Toyota’s youngest board member, one of only two non-Japanese directors, and someone observers see as a potential successor to President Akio Toyoda. Kuffner joined Toyota’s board last year with a mission: Turn the 84-year-old manufacturer into a cutting-edge company that competes with Apple, Google, Tesla, and others in autonomous driving and additional smart technol...
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