Business View Magazine | December 2019

334 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 jurisdictions and it can be a very lengthy approval process; if you get approved at all. Also, because the track sits in an existing technology park, the thousands of people who live there and work there will be interacting with the track all the time as they go about their business. Because most test tracks are behind closed doors in very controlled environments, this one will be unpredictable and that’s quite appealing to people who want to test.” BVM: What makes the track and the Lab unique? Plattenburg: “Some unique features of the track is that the road curves significantly in its 1.5 miles; at one point there is a 13-percent elevation change, which matters when you’re developing advanced vision systems for vehicles of the future because computer vision needs to be aware and make changes in real time when these things happen. And we have very tall, shaded trees along the route. Again, that matters from a vision standpoint because the