Texas and Iowa are among ten sites chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation to be proving grounds for self-driving cars or vehicles.
The government calls them “automated vehicle technologies” where the proving grounds will “foster innovations that can safely transform personal and commercial mobility, expand capacity, and open new doors to disadvantaged people and communities.”
At least 60 applicants were reviewed to be the chosen 10 proving grounds. The sites include the Texas AV Proving Grounds Partnership; Iowa City Area Development Group; the City of Pittsburgh; the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test center; the American Center for Mobility at Willow Run; the Contra Costa Transportation Authority; San Diego Association of Governments; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Central Florida automated Vehicle Partners and the North Carolina Turnpike Authority.
The selection of the sites was made by then-Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx before he was succeeded by Elaine Chao in the Trump Administration.
“This group will openly share best practices for the safe conduct of testing and operations as they are developed, enabling the participants and the general public to learn at a faster rate and accelerating the pace of safe deployment,” said Foxx.
