Business View Civil and Municipal | January 2021

74 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL JANUARY 2021 part of what makes Peachtree Corners home. “The shuttle is a great example of how curiosity lab, as a living laboratory, is a location for technology to go and get tested and enhanced when it has graduated from a closed laboratory environment in which it was initially approved,” adds Johnson. Putting the driverless shuttle through real- life situations enabled developers to identify areas requiring improvement or enhancement. The test course at Curiosity Lab has sweeping curves, a mature tree canopy, multi-story office buildings, and elevation changes – one section has a 13 percent grade. “The shuttle got a chance to interact not only with human-driven automobiles, but on sweeping curves, having to read lines in the pavement that were covered with leaves,” reports Johnson. “When the shuttle hit the hill that has a steep grade, its initial vehicle radar thought that something was in front of the vehicle. They had to tweak and adjust settings for this real-world situation and