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Table of Contents 1 Toyota's Future 1.1 What will happen next? 1.2 Why only Toyota? 2 Impact on the world 2.1 Social effects 2.2 Effects on motorsports

[edit] Toyota's Future

[edit] What will happen next?

By the year 2037, Toyota has a virtual monopoly on the North American automobile market. This is only possible due to the outstanding quality of their products and the low cost of manufacture.

• Cars and other transport devices are built by largely robot factories. Not quite 'lights-out' manufacture in the 2010 sense; the robots will have excellent vision even into the far reaches of infrared.
• In these numerous 'factories' 90% of the human employees are involved in quality control of one kind or another. There are numerous new specialities in quality control; far more than we would counternance today.

By the year 2105, however, this virtual monopoly is considered global. At this time, Toyota will also make spaceships that will use ethanol and solar power to travel to the colonies on Alpha Centauri, Venus, Mars, and the Moon.

[edit] Why only Toyota?

And why have other manufacturers not duplicated this success?

• Quality of working environment: Employees from the North American continent (human ones) like to work at Toyota and Toyotetsu. Toyotetsu is consistently voted one of the top ten companies in the world to work for. Japan was one of the first places in the world to deal with hi-density hi-tech living, and have consistantly led the world in this.
• Easy access: Most people in North America live within 15 minutes of a Toyota or a Toyotetsu factory. The Toyotetsu factories have excellent transport to them; nearly always they are positioned at prime locations. These prime locations include the hubs of major transport routes. Toyotetsu have been able to achieve this because they are the sole manufacturer of all the most popular maglev trains (which they also own and operate).
• Demise of General Motors: GM eventually tried to solve their union problems and sales problems by moving into increasingly military lines of work when the $15 billion auto loans were approved on December 10 2008 were forced to be paid back to the government weeks later. Their toxic waste legacy (caused by a desperate shift in corporate policy) and litigation by union members (that have been mind-hacked under the guidance of the security services) proved hugely costly. General Motors was unable to take advantage of the peace dividend in 2025 and became bankrupt again (with the business closing permanently by the first quarter of 2031). Ford survived though not enough to compete with Toyota enough.
• Perks: Toyotetsu employees can purchase cheaper Toyotas, get subsidised transport on all Maglev trains, have long holidays. A monthly suggestions contest has a prize where the winning employee gets to be part of the elite design team for a month.

[edit] Impact on the world

[edit] Social effects

• Toyotetsu will be one of the key components of the replacement of the declining tobacco industry with the automobile and electronics industry in traditional tobacco-growing regions.
• Toyota and Toyotetsu do not hire deaf people, blind people, the physically challenged, or the mentally disabled. When they find a permanent cure for autism, Toyotetsu's employee strength will exponentially increase as these formerly mentally challenged people leave their anti-psychotic medications and disability pensions for full time jobs and competitive benefit plans (including paid parental leave for both genders).
• Using the "formerly autistic" people for labor, the manpower that was lost during the massive layoffs in the automobile industry during the early 21st century will be gained back by the middle of the 21st century. Even before this, unemployment rates never went close to 25% even during the darkest moments of the economic crisis of 2008. Unemployment rates eventually reached 10% and eventually dropped after a new batch of banking regulations were created by the World Bank in the year 2012. These banking regulations would finally end the worldwide economic recession.

[edit] Effects on motorsports

• 2017 Kyle Busch wins his fifth Sprint Cup championship while riding a Joe Gibbs Toyota on the track (his #18 was converted from a Chevrolet to a Toyota when they bought 65% of Joe Gibbs Racing from the original owner, Mr. Joe Gibbs).