A developer of planned communities is joining with General Electric to build a smart city near Boston with driverless cars and heated sidewalks.

Kyle Corkum imagines a “smart city” with futuristic amenities like driverless shuttle services, heated sidewalks and a super-resilient energy grid that keeps humming through the harshest of storms.

As chief executive of LStar Ventures, a developer of planned communities, he has a chance to build the neighborhood of his dreams from the ground up on the site of a long-shuttered naval air station in this town just 12 miles south of Boston’s booming technology hub.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/business/smart-city.html