Challenge Details

Big ideas are bigger than cars. Toyota has proved this time and time again by sharing our big inventions with the world outside of cars. Everybody has a few good ideas, and Toyota is helping make some of them a reality. So we shared some of our most innovative technologies with you in the hope that you would share your good ideas to improve the world.

It didn’t take long for people from across the country to respond with thousands of ideas for using Toyota’s technology in new ways to benefit humanity. Of those thousands, five were chosen by the voting public for their potential to do an incredible amount of good in the world.

Over the course of a weekend in June, those five winning ideas were brought to life with the help of Deeplocal and Carnegie Mellon University engineers. What were once figments of our winners' imaginations are now working prototypes with the power to realize their potential and help make the world a better place.

Now students and professors at Carnegie Mellon University will develop the prototypes even further so that they may go on to affect lives in the real world and inspire people everywhere to come up with their own ideas for building a better future.