A little bit of history should be made this fall on Colby Drive, an otherwise unremarkable loop of pavement in an industrial area of Waterloo.
After more than a year of painstaking work, it’s where researchers at the University of Waterloo expect to become the first university-based team to test an autonomous car – cleverly nicknamed Autonomoose by students - on any public road in Canada.
If all goes according to plan, the modified Lincoln MKZ hybrid sedan will drive itself around a two-kilometre route and give dozens of people involved in the ambitious effort reason to celebrate.
“We’re going to be super excited because the first public road test represents a major milestone,” says Krzysztof Czarnecki, co-leader of the autonomous vehicle (AV) project.
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