Auburn Builds AV Testing Facility

Auburn University’s GPS and Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory is building a garage with multiple bays and lifts for commercial trucks and passenger vehicles, office space for researchers, a conference room and an observation area overlooking a 1.7-mile oval test track.

The $800,000 facility will be one of a few autonomous research facilities in the nation attached to a test track.

University officials said the indoor facility will provide protection from the sweltering summer heat and popup thunderstorms that interfere with their testing procedures.