Toyota Research Institute (TRI) has applied for a building permit to build on a 60-acre site at the Michigan Technical Resource Park (MITRP) on Ottawa Lake. This will be a closed test facility for the development of autonomous vehicle technology. If everything goes on schedule, it will open in October.
The TRI facility will be located inside a 2.8 km long oval test track. It will include a congested urban environment, flat surfaces and a four-lane highway with high-speed entrance and exit ramps. The idea is to test scenarios of «dangerous situations» that can occur on public roads.
«This project will give us the opportunity to create an autonomous vehicle that is incapable of creating an accident,» explained Ryan Eustis, TRI's senior vice president of automated driving.
MITRP has been a test site since 1968 and was sold in 2010 to a private developer. The 336-acre technology park is now available to automakers and suppliers for testing, design and technology development.
Earlier this year in Las Vegas, TRI unveiled the result of its latest research, the 3.0 platform for autonomous vehicles.
Photo and source: Toyota Research Institute.
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