"A giant touchscreen takes up most of one wall in a room at the Curiosity Lab, in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. The figure standing in front of it can see live camera feeds from around the area, including several junctions and pedestrian crossings, some roundabouts and even a fountain in a public park. Another view shows a live map of traffic congestion and construction sites from the Georgia Department of Transportation."
"Curiosity Lab, an economic-development initiative in a suburb of Atlanta, calls itself a "smart city living laboratory". Situated in the 200-hectare Atlanta Tech Park, it features a 4.8-kilometre stretch of roadway dedicated to trying out autonomous vehicles (AVs) and associated sensors, cameras and data networks. Instead of being an isolated test track, the road is part of a city street that carries more than 14,000 cars every day."
"Beep, a start-up from Orlando, Florida, has tested its autonomous shuttles on this roadway. T-Mobile, the country's second-largest wireless telecommunications company, is using 5G connections to investigate what new products both it and its customers might offer based on the technology, including AVs, drones and other robotics. In the next building, a garage houses three fully driverless sport utility vehicles (SUVs) developed by May Mobility of Ann Arbor, Michigan."
Curiosity Lab in Peachtree Corners is a smart-city living laboratory with a 4.8-kilometre public roadway that sees over 14,000 vehicles daily. The site integrates cameras, networked traffic signals, lidar sensors and data networks to enable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Live monitoring uses large displays showing camera feeds, congestion maps and object-labeling algorithms that sometimes misidentify shadows and swinging signals. Companies including Beep, T-Mobile and May Mobility test autonomous shuttles, 5G-enabled services and driverless SUVs on the roadway. The initiative prioritizes real-world testing of autonomy, connectivity and sensor systems to evaluate performance and develop commercial products.
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