Down on Chips, Toyota Goes Back to Basics With Car Keys

Down on Chips, Toyota Goes Back to Basics With Car Keys
A Toyota logo is displayed at the 89th Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva on March 5, 2019. Pierre Albouy/Reuters
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TOKYO—Toyota Motor Corp. has discovered that even keys can be too “smart” for their own good.

The world’s top-selling carmaker said on Thursday it would replace one of the two electronic “smart” keys it delivers in Japan with a mechanical one for the time being as it races to get cars to customers in Japan.