Business View Magazine | November 2019

312 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 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 shade patterns and sunlight change throughout the year. Those three things are very interesting to people who want to test advanced vehicles because you can’t typically find them on a closed track. “We are opening this track up for early-stage startups, Fortune 500 companies, and anyone in between, from anywhere in the world that has technology they want to test, demo, or deploy. We are welcoming them to Peachtree Corners for a day, a week, a month, six months, whatever it might