$11M AV test track officially opens in Ottawa

Ottawa has a secure, 16-kilometre road network that crisscrosses 4,200 acres of farmland at a one-time Agriculture Canada research station.

May 17, 2019 04:30 PM

OTTAWA — A 25-kilometre test course that opened here Friday for autonomous and connected vehicles is North America's first to combine all available technologies, its backers say.

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