It’ll be used to determine how its self-driving tech acts in “edge case” situations.
Not every test for autonomous-driving systems can be done on public roads, given the risks inherent of being around the public with fledgling tech. That’s why Toyota Research Institute is setting up a new shop in Michigan.
Toyota Research Institute, the wing of Toyota focused on AI and autonomy, announced today that it will build a closed-course test facility at the Michigan Technical Resource Park (MITRP) in Ottawa Lake. It will lease roughly 60 acres of land from MITRP, and it will still have access to MITRP’s public offerings like its oval track. MITRP’s full footprint measures some 336 acres.
Operating inside the oval track, TRI will build out its facility to include replications of congested city streets, a four-lane divided highway and low-traction surfaces.
