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There’s a mysterious black curtain surrounding the Stratford Festival’s Queen Street parking lot, and behind it, engineers are test-driving the future.

 

The Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR) has teamed up with a few industry partners for a month-long trial of some high-tech, highly automated driving functions.

 

That will involve a University of Waterloo research team, and a pair of Lincoln MKZ vehicles equipped with sophisticated sensors that will help them navigate with little input from the drivers.

 

The closed-track project will bring together the research of several mechanical, electrical and computer engineering professors in the areas of vehicle detection, motion planning (anticipating what things around you are going to do), lidar localization (using laser-based radar), and mapping.

 

Co-ordinating those technologies is key to developing a highly automated and eventually a fully autonomous vehicle, said WatCAR managing director Ross McKenzie. Read more...

 

As reported online www.stratfordbeacononline.com