Highly-touted driverless car testing track in region nears several milestones

Commercial clients are coming into view for SunTrax. Will Google or Uber be next?

  • By John Haughey
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 29, 2019
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COURTESY. SunTrax, an autonomous vehicle testing site north of Auburndale in Polk County, is primed to pass several milestones.
COURTESY. SunTrax, an autonomous vehicle testing site north of Auburndale in Polk County, is primed to pass several milestones.
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Like a race car zooming to the checkered flag, Florida Turnpike Enterprise’s $42 million SunTrax autonomous vehicle testing site north of Auburndale in Polk County can see victory: within a month it expects to complete construction of its 2.25-mile oval track.

“By the end of April, the beginning of May, we’ll be ready to shift away from facilities to operations,” SunTrax Administrator Paul Satchfield says.

 

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